also this insane hiring process
I thnok context is required here. Canonical foes not only make Ubuntu, it makes other things. Maybe they ask for information only for their cloud subscription or something?
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This is completely separate. It's something they ask when you apply for a job with them.
And if I apply at like age 40?
I hate the fact that i like their font so much. After i found out the license was pulled into question and my distro wasn't packaging it, i switched to something else, but so far nothing really hits the same way for me as a GUI font.
Same. But is someone going to sue me if I install it on whatever unafiliated distro I use? It's going to be just fine as long as I don't distribute it, especially since I'm more interested in it as a terminal font than as a GUI font.
Well the reason i care is because i use a distro that is exclusively libre (Guix). I do have to use a separate channel to get the regular kernel cause i simply can't go without it, but i figured i may as well use libre-only as much as possible, especially for something as easily replaceable as a font. I can still get the font by other means but chose to use something else. I'm currently using Lato, which is fine and i'm getting used to it now, but i probably still prefer the look of Ubuntu. In the terminal i use Mononoki, have been using it for years now and haven't even felt the need to try anything else, i still love how it looks.
https://canonical.com/legal/font-licence
"This licence allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely."
It's not one of the normal licenses, and idk a lawyer. Why can't a distro include it?
Yeah the other reply has a lot of good information, but it's also briefly mentioned on the wikipedia page. Debian and Fedora consider it to be non-free, and it's not FSF-approved.
According to https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/15792/debian-considers-the-ubuntu-font-family-non-free-why:
The problem appears to be around the requirement that modified versions which are not "substantially changed" must maintain the "Ubuntu" name - section 2.3 of the license:
2.3 Modified Versions which are not Substantially Changed must be renamed to both
1. retain the name of the Original Version and
2. add additional naming elements to distinguish the Modified Version from the Original Version.
See Launchpad for a long discussion; the argument is that while the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) allow a copyright holder to require the name of derivatives be changed, the DFSG do not allow the copyright holder to specify how the name be changed. It is potentially worth noting that Fedora also considers the license non-free, but for different reasons.
TBH to me that doesn't seem like strong enough grounds to not copy it manually to your Guix install, though I can see why distros might not want to package it. Canonical could probably have circumvented this issue by just using a more established license ... one has to wonder how much of this is sheer ignorance, and how much is calculated discouragement of using their fonts on other distros.
They go into a lot of detail here about why they forked an exisiting license, but i don't understand the copyright stuff.
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The βregular kernelβ is not libre?
Yeah like the other reply said, most of the actual kernel is libre since its gpl licensed, but you still need firmware blobs for a lot of devices that are proprietary. The libre kernel is patched in such a way that they don't even allow you to load firmware if you wanted to, so you need the regular linux kernel for that.
Lots of proprietary drivers/firmware and helper-programs for those drivers. You can probably get more insight by checking out what's included in Debian's "non-free" and "contrib" repositories.
i wouldn't use ubuntu because they default to gnome. that's enough of a red flag.
linux is as much about aesthetics as freedom.
Does gnome has anything privacy related that i should look into or is it only about the astetics? (I want to go back to gnome) (Also in a linux noob)
Not really. I only hate it personally because I find it inflexible, opinionated, and oversimplified compared to KDE Plasma.
If it works well for you, use gnome! Linux is all about choice after all.
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