Re: [orca-list] BREAKING NEWS: UBUNTU SCRAPPING GNOME IN VERSION 11.04!

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 05:39:08AM EDT, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
> I respect any distro's right to choose their direction, and certainly
> Ubuntu has done the same.
>
> What concerns me about Canonical's decision to go with Unity is that
> they are requesting that any contributions to Unity development be given
> the copyrights to Canonical.  To say that this is a concern is an
> undertatement for me, as people need to understand that if they wish to
> contribute to accessibility and maintain freedom and copyrights, it
> needs to be done directly through GNOME accessibility for which then
> Ubuntu can "use" the software.  But if you contribute to Unity for
> accessibility instead, then your work becomes the property of Canonical.

The following views are my own, and do not represent the views of my employer, Canonical ltd.

I totally agree with the copyright assignment, and the fact we should be working with upstream more/using 
GNOME shell. Work duplication is never good.

Regarding unity itself, we already have a plan o action to enable accessibility, including keyboard 
navigation, and extra theming/colours for low vision users etc. Once the blueprint is complete, I will post a 
link. I am fortunate enough to have te rest of the unity development team totally on board with this venture, 
and they will be doing as much as they can to help me get this all working. I will be working on tying the 
various pieces of unity to at-spi, whilst they will implement better keyboard navigation etc.

Luke