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

[hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>]

HI Luke,
Just a quick question.
Can you paist the copyright part of the public license that will be 
carried along with the unity source code?
I am interested to know if its GPL, MIT, or what ever?
If its GPL or BSD then as many feer, no one can take away the freedom 
period!
If later on canonical decides to change the copyright (and by the way 
any commertial free softwaer is under the threat of this ), then we can 
still forke the code.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On Thursday 28 October 2010 06:22 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> 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
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