[Hamara-devel] Don't hold your breath, ubiquity may be ported to Debian.

[shirish]

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On Monday 05 October 2015 07:46 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 05/10/15 13:58, shirish wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> See https://jonathancarter.org/2015/10/04/long-overdue-debconf-15-post/
>>
>> I have added the slides shared as a convenience. If the licensing
>> issues are sorted out, then it would be a win-win for both Canonical
>> and Debian (and for us as well).
>>
>> Although I'm somewhat a skeptic that things will happen so fast. They
>> were supposed to move to systemd about a year back, no idea if that
>> has happened yet or not.

> Well - it will be ported to Hamara Sugam courtesy of Raju DV - so we're
> cool :)


Hi all,


Had completely forgot to answer this e-mail.

@Vikas - While that is and will be cool when Raju does that, what the 
AIMS people have shared is the ambiguity in the licensing terms as it 
exists now. Because from what little I know Jonathan Carter, if it was 
just a simple thing to just change the ubiquity theme and removing 
Canonical's/Ubuntu's  trademarks he and his team would have done that 
long ago. I don't see the dearth of technical expertise over there. It 
is more of a licensing and legal issue so that there are no problems 
down the road. This is what I *think* Jonathan was trying to bring out 
in the presentation to which some Canonical people have sounded 
positive. How much that results into actual action would be something to 
be seen.

What was interesting to me is what Jonathan had stated in his blog 
'ubiquity is a front-end to d-i' . If I go back to the early days, I 
remember distinctly Mark stating both in his blog/twitter or somewhere 
saying that ubiquity would have nothing to do with d-i because it's so 
ugly. From that to come to d-i means they still are looking for 
low-level stuff to be tackled by d-i only (as it is pretty well 
maintained and has been over years) and just have ubiquity as a short of 
theme on top so it's pretty looking.

In either case, would be happy if ubiquity is re-licensed as a gplv2 
(unlikely) or a gplv3 only (maybe likely) then the gplv3+contrib as it 
stands now (along with all other Ubuntu/Canonical stuff.)

Look forward to hearing from all.
-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org