Community Council Catchup

[Valorie Zimmerman]

I've set my alarm and will be there. -v

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> 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 <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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