Hi Mark, Thanks for clearing the air. That for sure will further encourage the adoption of Ubuntu Core on embedded systems.
Cheers, Jian On May 14, 2016 22:57, "Mark Shuttleworth" <m...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi Jian > > You don't need an agreement with Canonical to ship an Ubuntu Core image, > just make sure it uses the standard unmodified OS snap. This is because, > since the os-snap is unmodified, users can validate that it's exactly as > if they downloaded it from Ubuntu, so we are happy for devices to ship > without a private agreement with the manufacturer. In future, if you > decide you want us to certify the device, we offer that as a service. > But you don't need to certify a device to ship it with Ubuntu Core. This > is a major difference between Ubuntu Core and classic (deb-based) Ubuntu > images. > > Mark > > On 13/05/16 12:29, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: > > I'm now working on the new image creation tool. You can use all the > > existing tooling for now but keep in mind that we will switch to the > > tool I'm working on (which is just better and far more flexible) as > > soon as it is ready. > > > > You will have more influence over the resulting disk image and also > > more freedom in bootloader organization. I will share more details > > about this next week. > > > > Best regards > > ZK > > > > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Oliver Grawert <o...@ubuntu.com> > wrote: > >> hi, > >> On Fr, 2016-05-13 at 19:28 +0200, Jian LUO wrote: > >>> Hi list, > >>> Say I want to ship my commercially available hardware with a snappy > >>> image consisting of my gadget snap, a tailored kernel and the > >>> unmodified ubunto-core.canonical OS snap. Do I need an > >>> agreement/license from canonical to do so? > >> the os snap is generated fully from opensource software that lives in > >> the ubuntu archive, as long as your image creation happened by using > >> the official image creation tool and the ubuntu-core snap came > >> unmodified from the snap store there should be no extra permission > >> needed IMHO .... > >> > >> but i am indeed not a lawyer :) > >> > >> ciao > >> oli > >> > >> -- > >> snappy-devel mailing list > >> snappy-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snappy-devel > >> > > >
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