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Re:Some doubts about GPL, licensing and the BQ Aquaris E4.5 ... by bjackman on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @12:11PM (#9226491)
This is surely more of a Mediatek/BQ issue than an Ubuntu one. Regardless, Canonical are supposed to be on the side of software Freedom, and it's on their shoulders to make Mediatek sort this out.
Re:Some doubts about GPL, licensing and the BQ Aquaris E4.5 ... by Brakenshire on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @12:26PM (#9226627)
I was reading recently about the struggles of Fairphone to open up their hardware so that other operating systems could be installed - Sailfish, Ubuntu, Firefox etc. The impression which emerged was that the people placing hardware orders had really quite limited power to affect this kind of behaviour, unless they are a really large player. What do you think Ubuntu can do?