[ale] Ubuntu and the price of Unity

[Jim Kinney]

Yep. It's that "donate your code to us so we can subvert your freedom later"
I'm real excited about.
On Jan 4, 2011 1:07 AM, "Don Lachlan" <ale-at-ale.org at unpopularminds.org>
wrote:
> There is no requirement that code be released under an "open" or "free"
license.
>
> Canonical Contributor Agreement:
>
> ``6. Canonical will ordinarily make the Assigned Contributions
> available to the public under a "Free Software Licence", according to
> the definition of that term published by the Free Software Foundation
> from time to time. Canonical may also, in its discretion, make the
> Assigned Contributions available to the public under other license
> terms.``
>
>
http://www.canonical.com/system/files/Canonical%20Contributor%20Agreement%2C%20ver%202.5.pdf
> (from http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/CopyrightAssignment)
>
> Nothing there to stop Canonical (or whoever owns/controls it in the
> future) from closing up all the repositories and releasing binary-only
> versions under whatever restrictive license terms. Very unlikely, but
> still non-zero. That agreement says it's only a free project TODAY.
>
> -Don
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:49 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Let me sum that article up simply: the GNOME project doesn't like
>>> Canonical's Unity project because it might be more popular than their
>>> in-development "Shell" project.
>>
>> That's not what I read. GNOME is wary because Cannonical  requires/uses a
>> copyright/license scheme that signs away copyright to Cannonical and
allows
>> for closed-source proprietary code. That is very bad from a GNOME
>> perspective as they got started because of QT license issues with the
>> framework for KDE.
>>>
>>> Well, who cares? Ubuntu isn't GNOME just like it isn't Debian. They
>>> can do whatever the hell they please as long as it doesn't upset their
>>> users. If the GNOME developers don't like it, they can use a different
>>> distribution.
>>>
>>> On Monday, January 3, 2011, Watson, Keith <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu>
wrote:
>>> > Ubuntu and the price of Unity
>>> >
>>> >
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Ubuntu-and-the-price-of-Unity-1156110.html
>>> >
>>> > http://preview.tinyurl.com/23yaw8n
>>> >
>>> > keith
>>>
>>> --
>>> James Sumners
>>> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>>>
>>> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
>>> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
>>> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
>>> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>>>
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>>
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>> James P. Kinney III
>> I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in chains.
>>
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