Personal Package Archive Terms of Use

Last Amended on 2011-03-25

This PPA Service is provided by Canonical Ltd. subject to these Terms of Use. Canonical may update and change these Terms of Use from time to time and without prior notice. Canonical will make an effort to make any changes known in advance to you. Failure to comply with these terms may result in account revocation.

You understand and agree that any content you upload to PPAs must be freely redistributable by Canonical, and released under a license permitting redistribution free of charge. Acceptable licenses include those which fall under one or more of the following:

• OSI Approved

• FSF Approved

• DFSG Compliant

• Ubuntu "main" and "restricted" Component license Policy Compliant

• Select Creative Commons Licenses

  • CC PD

  • CC-BY

  • CC BY-ND

  • CC BY-NC

  • CC BY-NC-SA

  • CC BY-NC-ND

If you want to upload source under a license not covered by the list above, bring it up on the Launchpad users mailing list for consideration before uploading it.

Canonical reserves the right (but shall have no obligation) to pre-screen, review, flag, filter, modify, refuse, or remove any or all content that does not conform to the Terms of Service.

Canonical reserves the right to enforce quotas on the Service, including (but not limited to) disk space, CPU time, and bandwidth usage.

You agree not to sell, resell, or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service.

You will use your best efforts to ensure that you abide by these Terms of Use. In the event that you fail to make such efforts and Canonical or its affiliates suffers loss, you shall be liable to reimburse Canonical for that loss in its entirety. This applies whether you are a team member or administrator or otherwise.

For more information about PPA features and usage detail check the PPA quick-start guide.