Question regarding redistribution of ubuntu-core

[Mark Shuttleworth]

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 <ogra at 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
>>
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