Canonical’s IPRights Policy incompatible with Ubuntu licence policy

José Antonio Rey jose at ubuntu.com
Mon May 4 04:03:35 UTC 2015


Anything *since the start of the discussion*?

On 05/03/2015 11:02 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
> I exchanged email with Amanda Brock last year who was General Counsel
> for Canonical Ltd and oversaw all of those teams. So yes they have been
> contacted.
>
> Jonathan as he pointed out has dialogues on this issue in the past too.
>
> On May 3, 2015 8:46 PM, "José Antonio Rey" <jose at ubuntu.com
> <mailto:jose at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>     There's been suggestions to contact Canonical, and specifically the
>     trademark and legal teams. Since the start of the discussion, has
>     anyone tried to reach them? Can anyone try? Otherwise, we have this
>     list in vain, since the suggestions given are not being taken.
>
>     On 05/03/2015 10:44 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
>
>         Right and Jonathan said Canonical has been contacted a few times
>         and the
>         CC said they also looked into this once.
>
>         So at this point would it not be appropriate and very reasonable
>         for the
>         CC to have a new dialogue and try to resolve this issue? The CC
>         having a
>         few Canonical employees on it and sabdfl could probably get the
>         issue
>         resolved much more easily than Jonathan who has clearly faced some
>         difficulty.
>
>
>
>         On May 3, 2015 8:40 PM, "cprofitt" <cprofitt at ubuntu.com
>         <mailto:cprofitt at ubuntu.com>
>         <mailto:cprofitt at ubuntu.com <mailto:cprofitt at ubuntu.com>>> wrote:
>           >
>           > On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 17:27 -0700, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
>           > > Simple thing is a community flavor has asked the CC to
>         intervene in
>           > > this and the CC should do that. If the CC cannot what
>         makes you think
>           > > Jonathan would have anymore success?
>           > >
>           > My recollection is not that he asked use to intervene, but
>         asked the CC
>           > to make a statement with regards to intellectual property
>         rights.
>           >
>           > Charles
>           > >
>           > >
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>     --
>     José Antonio Rey
>

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