Community Council Catchup

[Jonathan Riddell]

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