Ubuntu has also been the target of some anger over licensing restrictions [1] for many of the reasons you listed. It is virtually impossible for a user to remove all of the Canonical branding from the packages since every package needs to be rebuilt from source with all references to trademarks removed. This high barrier of entry virtually requires any derivative of Ubuntu to negotiate a licensing agreement with Canonical.
[1] - https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/39913.html On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 5:00 PM Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/28/2016 05:36 PM, AJ ONeal (Home) wrote: > > If I recall correctly last year there was some sort of network tool that > > release all of their stuff under the GPL, but it was riddled with > branding > > (images) and trademarks (product name, slogans) that had to be removed > > manually in order to actually build and use the code legally. > > > > I seem to remember it becoming a big deal and threading on reddit or > > similar. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? > > > > Or something similar? > > I'm looking for one of these types of articles. > > There are several open source programs that have trademarks associated > with the artwork and branding. Firefox is one, and there were problems > with Debian and Firefox for years (recently resolved). A fork of > firefox called Palemoon also had to remove all Firefox and Mozilla > trademarks and artwork when they released their browser. > > For GPL'd projects, the entire Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution is > another example. You're free to build it from source and release it as > you're own distro, but you have to remove all the trademarked Red Hat > stuff from it. That's why for years CentOS said they were based on a > well-known upstream distribution. > > But neither of these examples I gave restrict the end user from building > it himself. The restrictions just apply to redistribution. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
