Got a reply already. They are aware and it is "currently under review by legal". -Adam On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Adam Miller <maxamillion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've got a friend on Canonical's payroll, I'll ping him about the > issue and see if he knows the proper channels. > > -Adam > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:17 AM, King InuYasha <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> King InuYasha wrote: >>> > Hey, I just saw this new project out there called Portable Ubuntu ( >>> > http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net/). >>> > Perhaps we could bring something like that to Fedora? We seem to be >>> > incorporating more interoperability features lately, and I think this >>> > would bring us quite a bit closer to that. Also it lets people try out >>> > Fedora without rebooting or using a costly virtual machine. Even better, >>> > this brings in the ability to run native Linux binaries on Windows >>> > because >>> > it is running under the Linux kernel process. Interestingly enough, this >>> > could also result in being able to do stuff like side by side testing of >>> > Wine vs Windows of the same program. >>> >>> This uses coLinux which requires administration privileges, so it's not >>> quite your average "portable app". Plus, coLinux uses an old kernel (they >>> always lag behind the current kernel versions - right now, even the >>> development version is stuck at 2.6.22.18) and has performance issues and >>> other limitations. You also get a port of an ancient X11 (Xming uses a >>> shareware model where only old versions are available for free, right now >>> the latest "public domain" version (which is not really public domain, by >>> the way, most of it is X11-licensed) is 6.9.0.31, everything newer is >>> proprietary (non-redistributable) and has to be paid for, blame the >>> non-copyleft license of X11 for allowing that) shoehorned into a foreign, >>> non-X11 window manager, so you don't experience any of the modern X11 >>> features in Fedora. Just rebooting into a live image is a much better >>> solution. >>> >>> Kevin Kofler >> >> >> Couldn't the patches [used to make the coLinux kernel possible] be forward >> ported to the latest 2.6.x kernel? As for the X11 issue, I did notice that. >> However it seems that he provides the latest versions of all of his patches >> (http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingCode/) even though the instructions on >> how to use them are kinda out of date >> (http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/cross.php). I think this is more >> or less the same situation with the Xchat Windows binaries, except this guy >> has more legal ground, especially with most of it being licensed either LGPL >> or X11. >> >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:43 PM, King InuYasha <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > Hey, I just saw this new project out there called Portable Ubuntu >>> > (http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net/). >>> >>> You should probably let Canonical Legal know about that project, its >>> probably violating the Trademark guidelines for the Ubuntu marks >>> running a non-Canonical built kernel and X server. >>> >>> -jef >> >> >> I have no idea on how to contact Canonical's legal department, and I have >> looked over Canonical's and Ubuntu's site. Not much help there. >> -- >> fedora-devel-list mailing list >> fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list >> > > > > -- > http://maxamillion.googlepages.com > --------------------------------------------------------- > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com --------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
