Comment 6 for bug 723831
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| Jono Bacon (jonobacon) wrote Re: Installer – The option to 'install third-party software' when installing Ubuntu should be selected by default | #6 |
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John, can you provide more information about how this change will improve the user experience and bring value to Ubuntu? Right now I don't feel I have enough of a handle on what this feature will bring to our users.
Although this change is only a default checkbox being selected (and assuming ticking it will automatically install proprietary drivers) this change has significant legal and policy implications for the Ubuntu project. They are:
* Legal - are we legally able to make this change? You mentioned that Canonical's Legal Counsel has approved this, can you provide more details?
* Policy - Ubuntu has always maintained that a default installation of Ubuntu will ship Free Software - it is my understanding that this change would change that default to ship Non-Free software. In my eyes that is a policy change for Ubuntu, and therefore there should be a discussion with the Technical Board and/or the community on ubuntu-devel. I would be uncomfortable with making this change without a suitable discussion with our community, and at least with our technical policy governing body (the Technical Board).
Can you provide more details on the goal of the change, it's intended outcome, if there are opportunities to achieve the same outcome in other ways, and if not, how you would plan to coordinate these legal and policy discussions.
Thanks.