> So unless I get explicit permission from Canonical, there's the risk that they'll decide at some later date that my use is harmful and sue me for copyright infringement?
Do you want Canonical to promise to never sue you, no matter what you do with the trademarks? You're not perfect, so yes there is a risk that you will do something harmful with the trademarks, which is precisely why you won't be given unrestricted use of it now.
> If I committed to doing this work, can you commit to it being accepted?
Not me personally, I don't have upload rights to the archive. But if you can find somebody who does, or better still convince the technical board that it should be done, then more power to you. You know how Ubuntu works, so why are you even asking questions that you already know the answer to?
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Re: Comparing to Fedora / Comparing to Red Hat
Date: 2015-11-23 04:07 am (UTC)Do you want Canonical to promise to never sue you, no matter what you do with the trademarks? You're not perfect, so yes there is a risk that you will do something harmful with the trademarks, which is precisely why you won't be given unrestricted use of it now.
> If I committed to doing this work, can you commit to it being accepted?
Not me personally, I don't have upload rights to the archive. But if you can find somebody who does, or better still convince the technical board that it should be done, then more power to you. You know how Ubuntu works, so why are you even asking questions that you already know the answer to?
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