Canonical Is Back To Doing Feature Development For Launchpad

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Canonical Is Back To Doing Feature Development For Launchpad

Canonical is back to working on the Launchpad.net code, their website that pairs code hosting with bug tacking, translations, blueprints, and more...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Canonical-Launchpad-Improves

[Uqbar]

To doing? TO DOING?

[madjr]

I believe that mostly the same developers that host their projects there, should give a hand.

[blackout23]

Is Launchpad open source? Could I host it on my own network like Gitlab?

[duby229]

It is open source, but according to Canonicals license terms you never actually get any copyrights for whatever modifications you write, they go straight to Canonical.

[magika]

It is technically open source, but was never intended to (and wont) run on anything except launchpad.net.
Well, since ubuntu community suffers from it most I guess its okay for Canonical to ask community for help.

[Luke_Wolf]

To doing? TO DOING?

Um... What precisely is your problem? "To do" is a perfectly valid English statement, as is the conjugate form "to doing" so long as he's using the correct supporting grammar, which he is.

[jo-erlend]

It is open source, but according to Canonicals license terms you never actually get any copyrights for whatever modifications you write, they go straight to Canonical.

That's not true at all. The CLA explicitly states the exact opposite; that you _do_ own your contribution and that you do _not_ reassign copyright to Canonical. However, you do provide Canonical with a less restricted license to your contribution. That means Canonical is able to relicense their software in the future, unlike for instance, the Linux kernel, which is pretty much locked to GPL2.

This also means that you don't have to explicitly license all your patches, because Canonical is legally entitled to relicense your contribution under GPL or AGPLv3, which is the license used for the Launchpad Suite.