14 DAY TRIAL // We reported last week that Kubuntu's Jonathan Riddell expressed his feelings regarding Canonical's IP (Intellectual Property) policy for the Ubuntu Linux operating system, which was updated on the same day his blog post was written, July 15, 2015.
On July 22, Jonathan Riddell requested that the Ubuntu CC (Community Council) move the Canonical Intellectual Property policy off the Ubuntu website (www.ubuntu.com) to a different place where people who attempt downloading Ubuntu don't get confused when reading the IP policy.
"It was revealed last week that is policy breached the GPL and still leaves open numerous gaps in the ability of people to freely share, copy and modify Ubuntu," says Jonathan Riddell. "It is hurting the reputation of Ubuntu as a welcoming and functional free software project that respects the licence of the upstreams we depend on."
Following Jonathan Riddell's request, a few of important members of the Ubuntu community, including Alan Pope, the Ubuntu community manager, posted replies explaining that the Community Council can't do anything about this, and that they are not in control of the ubuntu.com website. As such, Jonathan Riddell retracted his request.