Ah right. Makes more sense now. Would a small independent store (like I've been asking about) need to pay that as well?
I think I remember hearing about something like this a while back on the list. Thanks James -- James Milligan [email protected] www.lake54.com www.killermentality.com www.twitter.com/lake54 On 31 May 2009, at 14:23, Alan Pope <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/5/31 James Milligan <[email protected]>: >> Boom! That's me out of the water lol. Are they made to pay for it or >> out of 'generosity'? >> > > As I understand it (i.e. this may be factually inaccurate) any OEM > wishing to sell Ubuntu branded as Ubuntu needs to pay a license to > Canonical for the use of the trademarked name. I believe there are > also restrictions upon what you can do, for example you can't > pre-install skype, but can pre-install some codec bundles (which are > an additional license cost). > > Cheers, > Al. > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
