Re: Canonical’s IPRights Policy incompatible with Ubuntu licence policy

[Jonathan Riddell]

On 4 May 2015 at 23:47, Michael Hall <mhall119 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>     On 05/04/2015 12:42 PM, Randall Ross  wrote:
>>     > In the time it took to write this thread, there could have been several
>>     > meetings with Canonical legal and likely a resolution.
>>
>>     Those meetings have already happened, the CC had them. We have been
>>     given Canonical's position on the matter and passed that on to those who
>>     made the inquiry.
>>
>> Maybe I missed it, what was the reason that was given for derivatives
>> needing to recompile binaries?
>
> Derivatives can either work fully within the archives, in which case
> they don't need to do anything, or they can request a license grant from
> Canonical to base their derived product off of Ubuntu's archives.
>
> If they don't wish to do either, then they should take the source code
> and build their own archives from that, as Ubuntu does with Debian and
> CentOS does from Red Hat.

You are avoiding the question.  Why would a licence be needed?

Jonathan