As Luke is rather busy, I can answer a few of these points to save time. On 28/10/10 21:44, Anthony Sales wrote: > Hi Luke, > > Could you clarify the plans have for Ubuntu in regard to Unity, > Accessibility, Gnome and the alleged licensing of Unity? And what are you > thoughts initially - do you think it is possible to make Unity accessible there have been lots and lots of discussions about this at UDS, accessibility is absolutely a priority for Unity and we intend to have accessibility testing as part of the iso testing release process. > or will we/you have to default to Gnome for the 'blind profile'. it will certainly be possible to opt out of Unity and use the traditional Gnome desktop or indeed Gnome Shell (all three are Gnome) > Is it true that Canonical want to copyright Unity? All code is copyrighted by the author as soon as it is written, unless some agreement changes that. Canonical do hold the copyright for Unity code and they also want contributions from third parties to sign a copyright transfer agreement handing Canonical the copyright to contributions. This means that Canonical will be the sole copyright holder for the entire unity codebase. This in turn means they can change the license (maybe one day to GPL v4 for example) without hunting about for permission from every single contributor (lets say they want to do this in 20 years time and some of the contributors and copyright holders are uncontactable or even dead) they can also license it in a non-free way to other companies if they want to. If you can figure out who might want it that way and why, do let me know.
> And if so do you know what there thinking is behind this - is it merely a > formality - or does Canonical have more commercial plans for Ubuntu. absolutely they have commercial plans. They don't appear to have freedom hating proprietary plans though. http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/our-philosophy > I personally wouldn't object to a commercialisation of ubuntu - as this > seems the next logical step in making Ubuntu a popular desktop - but if this > constraints development in other projects, then maybe it might have a > negative effect on open-source accessibility etc. Anyway, I just wondered if > you could clarify things because at the moment there seems to be a little > confusion and panic about this issue, DON'T PANIC <- big friendly letters > which of course may turn out to be a red herring. do Narwhals eat herring? > Tony Sales. > ________________________________________ > From: ubuntu-accessibility-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com > [ubuntu-accessibility-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Luke Yelavich > [them...@ubuntu.com] > Sent: 26 October 2010 13:46 > To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: Unity and accessibility > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 07:40:53AM EDT, E.J. Zufelt wrote: >> Good morning, >> >> I read a release this morning explaining that possibly as of 11.04 Ubuntu >> will ship with Unity, based on gnome, and not gnome, as the default window >> manager. I am wondering what accessibility features exist in Unity and how >> well it supports gnome based assistive technology applications like Orca? > Unity in its current form does not have much in the way of accessibility. It > doesn't even have keyboard navigation to move around the environment, let > alone assistive technology support. > > For the 11.04 release, I will be working very closely with the unity > developers to implement accessibility and keyboard navigation support, so > much so, that it will be my primary focus for this cycle. > > I will also attempt to address any other accessibility issues we need to fix, > like the installer, if I get the time. > > Luke > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com Mob: +44 (0)7738 789190 Tel: +44 (0)844 3576000 The Open Learning Centre is a trading name of Bell Lord Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales #05868943. VAT Registration #GB 901 4715 55 -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
