Community Council Catchup

[Jonathan Riddell]

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 <jr at jriddell.org> 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
>
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