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Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)Posted Oct 25, 2010 22:24 UTC (Mon) by j1mc (guest, #56848)In reply to: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica) by jspaleta Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)
Per Matt Zimmerman's recent blog post (http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/10/20/ubuntu-and-qt), we can gather that they'll be bringing in their own Qt apps into Ubuntu.
To me, it wouldn't matter if Canonical / Ubuntu were using Unity if contributing to Unity didn't require assignment of copyright for your contributions to Canonical. If that weren't the case, then people could take the best of both worlds between Gnome-Shell and Unity and do whatever they wanted.
I don't even care if they're putting QT apps into Ubuntu. I don't care that it's not Gtk. Qt is open and free. Even Nokia doesn't require contributions to Qt to be given over to Nokia.
But the copyright assignment requirement effectively keeps Canonical out on their own island, and what you contribute to these Canonical-initiated projects could eventually be made proprietary. Caveat contributor.
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