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While introducing Ubuntu 7.10, Mark Shuttleworth said that it will {{cquote|feature a new flavour - as yet unnamed - which takes an ultra-orthodox view of licensing: no firmware, drivers, imagery, sounds, applications, or other content which do not include full source materials and come with full rights of modification, remixing and redistribution. There should be no more conservative home, for those who demand a super-strict interpretation of the "free" in free software. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-April/000276.html |title=Introducing the Gutsy Gibbon | accessdate=2007-07-11}}</ref>}} Gobuntu was officially announced by Mark Shuttleworth on ] ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/130 |title=Mark Shuttleworth >> Blog Archive >> Gobuntu is… go | accessdate=2007-07-11}}</ref>, and ]s of Gobuntu 7.10 began to be publicly released. The initial version, Gobuntu 7.10, was released on ] ], but only in text-only installer, the first full release is expected to be the Long-Term Release codenamed "Hardy Heron". |
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While introducing Ubuntu 7.10, Mark Shuttleworth said that it will {{cquote|feature a new flavour - as yet unnamed - which takes an ultra-orthodox view of licensing: no firmware, drivers, imagery, sounds, applications, or other content which do not include full source materials and come with full rights of modification, remixing and redistribution. There should be no more conservative home, for those who demand a super-strict interpretation of the "free" in free software. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-April/000276.html |title=Introducing the Gutsy Gibbon | accessdate=2007-07-11}}</ref>}} Gobuntu was officially announced by Mark Shuttleworth on ] ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/130 |title=Mark Shuttleworth >> Blog Archive >> Gobuntu is… go | accessdate=2007-07-11}}</ref>, and ]s of Gobuntu 7.10 began to be publicly released. The initial version, Gobuntu 7.10, was released on ] ], but only in text-only installer, the first full release is expected to be the Long-Term Release codenamed "Hardy Heron". |
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Release 7.10 initially met with criticism from some free software advocates, since it included ] and ],<ref></ref> software which the ] has insisted must be distributed only with non-free artwork<ref>{{cite web|url=http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/10/18/gobuntu-has-already-failed|title=''Gobuntu has already failed''|author=Mark Pilgrim|accessdate=2007-11-26}}</ref>. After some debate on the developer list<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gobuntu-devel/2007-October/000395.html|title=''Firefox and Thunderbird'' thread, gobuntu-devel mailing list|accessdate=2007-11-26}}</ref>, this problem was quickly addressed by Canonical, and the non-free products will be replaced in the upcoming interim release "Gobuntu Gutsy+1". |
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Release 7.10 initially met with criticism from some free software advocates, since it included ] and ],<ref></ref> software which the ] has insisted must be distributed only with non-free artwork, unless a derivative version is made with a different name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/10/18/gobuntu-has-already-failed|title=''Gobuntu has already failed''|author=Mark Pilgrim|accessdate=2007-11-26}}</ref> After some debate on the developer list,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gobuntu-devel/2007-October/000395.html|title=''Firefox and Thunderbird'' thread, gobuntu-devel mailing list|accessdate=2007-11-26}}</ref> this problem was quickly addressed by Canonical, and the non-free products will be replaced in the upcoming interim release "Gobuntu Gutsy+1". |
