Question regarding redistribution of ubuntu-core

[Jian LUO]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for clearing the air. That for sure will further encourage the
adoption of Ubuntu Core on embedded systems.

Cheers,

Jian
On May 14, 2016 22:57, "Mark Shuttleworth" <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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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