AppDevUploadProcess Automatic reviews
Philipp Kern
pkern at ubuntu.com
Fri Sep 7 15:35:44 UTC 2012
Scott,
am Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 10:07:28AM -0400 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
> The current goal for the Ubuntu archive is to prevent distribution of content
> which Canonical and the mirror providers don't have legal authorization to
> distribute. Changing from a proactive verification model (which is what we use
> now, although it relies generally on self assertions in the code so it's
> imperfect) to a reactive model where code is considered distributable based on
> a third party assertion until someone complains seems like a very substantial
> change.
I think that's also because we ask people to mirror stuff that Debian (and by
extension Ubuntu) does proactive checks.
> IANAL either, but this seems risky to me. At the very least, I'd suggest
> engaging them early to make sure they are comfortable with the concept of not
> checking (new work item) and you'll need to figure out how you'll deal with
> take down requests (another new work item). If it turns out applications have
> been distributed illegally, do you intend a way to remotely remove them?
I don't think there is any requirement to remotely remove such content (except
if it's malicious, maybe). On the contrary I think people would be yelling at
you, especially if they paid for the content (c.f. Amazon).
For Android you mainly risk your sign-up fee given that with every upload you
state that you have the necessary rights. If the distribution point ceases to
distribute the 3rd party content when he's made aware of a violation that seems
to be fair. However that wouldn't work go along well with mirroring this
repository.
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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