On 2018-01-05 09:10, Hong Phuc Dang wrote: > Please pardon my ignorance but I still don’t understand what is > wrong about starting a new documentation project and a new chat > channel where we - Asian contributors feel more comfortable and can > freely learn and freely work on things that we care about
That certainly sounds great. Contributions to Lubuntu are gladly welcomed by anyone. However, it seems that the entirety of the project was focused on filtering stuff to lubuntu.net, an unofficial website unmaintained by the Lubuntu Team that no one on the team has access to. This, unfortunately, means that most Lubuntu users will never see these contributions. Across Canonical/Ubuntu's websites, Distro Watch, Wikipedia, the upstream LXDE/Qt websites themselves, and many other places, you'll find lubuntu.me as the official website. If you find for some reason that it's not reasonable to work with the tools that Canonical provides for the documentation of Lubuntu (primarily the wiki), that's reasonable. It's certainly something that we as a team could work together towards coming up with a system to integrate contributions on GitHub with either the current website, our Phabricator instance, the wiki, etc. As far as I know, no one in FOSSASIA contacted the team about this at all. Otherwise, I imagine everything would have fallen within the Lubuntu Team's GitHub organization. > If we are violating US laws, we need to be informed officially by the > authorities in order to take further actions. Canonical is a UK company and has trademarks against the Ubuntu name (and variants thereof, such as Lubuntu) globally. There are trademarks in US, Germany, Australia, Israel, as well as international trademarks registered with WIPO Madrid. They cover a wide variety of classes, including not only the distribution of software but online communications. These trademarks also cover both so-called word marks and service marks. Though there certainly are laws related to trademarks in the US, and that is most likely the basis which GitHub used to take down the repos, the laws are also international. The [Ubuntu Intellectual Property Policy][1] makes the issue at hand very clear: "You will require Canonical’s permission to use: (i) any mark ending with the letters UBUNTU or BUNTU which is sufficiently similar to the Trademarks or any other confusingly similar mark, and (ii) any Trademark in a domain name or URL" That said, the documentation efforts sound very exciting and I'm sure Lubuntu users would love to have them. What can we do to integrate your work with the rest of the project? [1]: https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/intellectual-property-policy -- @wxl | polka.bike C563 CAC5 8BE1 2F22 A49D 68F6 8B57 A48B C4F2 051A -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
