Plasma 5 on Kubuntu 14.10

[Iain Lane]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 10:49:17AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:09:14PM +0200, Rohan Garg wrote:
> > > Ok.  So I think this seems generally reasonable, and in line with what the
> > > Kubuntu team has done in the past for preview images.  I don't think we want
> > > to have an official released 14.10 ISO that's built from a ppa, but we do
> > > have the capabilities now to build images from ppa which we didn't really
> > > have before the livefs-in-launchpad work - so having this as an unreleased
> > > daily image seems fine to me.
> 
> > > Within those constraints, I think it's fine to have it on cdimage.u.c.
> 
> > Any particular reason why we can't release it? The idea was to call it
> > a 'technical preview remix' of Kubuntu ( alot like what Kubuntu did
> > with the switch between KDE 3 and KDE 4 ).
> 
> Because you're building it from a ppa, so it's not a remix.
> 
> A remix is expected to be built from the Ubuntu archive rather than a
> separate ppa.  This is what Kubuntu did for the KDE4 preview.

I can't find out where this has gone on the production website, but AIUI
this was a decision made at the TB that hasn't been changed since.

The old trademark policy

  https://web.archive.org/web/20130319043422/http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy

included the text

  In general, a Remix can have applications from the Ubuntu archives and
  approved extension repositories[0] added, or default applications
  removed, but removing or changing any infrastructure components (e.g.,
  shared libraries or desktop components) will result in changes too
  large for the resulting product to be called by a Trademark.

[0]
https://web.archive.org/web/20130129150124/https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ExtensionRepositoryPolicy

It sounds to me like this image would involve 'changing infrastructure
components' so might not be able to be a remix /anyway/, but not for the
reason of building from an external repository. That'd be a question for
the TB if Kubuntu wanted to pursue this there (likely not given Scott's
response).

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
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