I've set my alarm and will be there. -v On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel >
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