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

Benjamin Kerensa bkerensa at ubuntu.com
Mon May 4 22:38:58 UTC 2015


So to be clear you are basically saying derivs do not get the same freedoms
that Ubuntu gets from upstream?

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Michael Hall <mhall119 at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>
> On 05/04/2015 05:57 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> Because they are not Ubuntu and they are using Ubuntu's resources.
>
> Michael Hall
> mhall119 at ubuntu.com
>
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