https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+bug/1339508 "Misspelling in insights article"
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/07/07/ubuntu-and-open-source-help-the-city-of-munich-save-millions/ On 1 October 2014 12:45, Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote: > We're scheduled for a meeting with the community council tomorrow at > 17:00UTC (or 8 en la tarde as we say in Spanish). What topics to > bring up? > > We seem to be getting funds from the ubuntu community donations in > acceptable time and I see the latest report has been published > > https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1IKaC3aOByiR5oT0_L4h0mhLfQ7uHJPabipNjKNoMxZw/ > (still plenty of money in the bank here, we should be applying for any > expenses from here). > > Looking at the Ubuntu website it uses the deprecating term > "derivatives" for ubuntu flavours such as ourselves that are not a > derivative, I think I'll ask this to be changed > http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/derivatives > > Our Kubuntu Plasma5 images are being produced from a PPA and being > published on cdimages which is great. > > The technical problems that I feared from Canonical moving away from > community made software are coming true, KDE is recommending SDDM > having moved away from LightDM because of the need to agree to a > special licence to Canonical. I'm now having trouble making SDDM work > with our images and have nowhere in Ubuntu to turn to for help. > > Reviewing the licence policy situation the Ubuntu liceensing page says all > the right stuff > http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/licensing > "Must allow these rights to be passed on along with the software. You > should be able to have exactly the same rights to the software as we do." > which is correct. > The Canonical IP policy continues to be incorrect however > http://www.canonical.com/intellectual-property-rights-policy > "Any redistribution of modified versions...will need to recompile the > source code to create your own binaries" > This is incorrect, as all software is free software once it is > distributed to someone that person can further distribute it all they > want under the relevant free software licence. To claim otherwise is > an insult to the copyright holders, the upstreams who write our > software, and goes against the Ubuntu policy above. It causes worry for our > supporters and is one reason why Blue Systems are looking at other > distributions. It needs to be changed and I strongly feel it is the > task of the community council to stand up to Canonical on this topic. > > Let me know of any other topics and hopefully we can have several people > turn up > > Jonathan > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel >
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