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float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:40%; background:#F1F1ED; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; &quot;"><tbody><tr> <td style="&quot; padding:0.5em; &quot;"><p class="line891"><div class="table-of-contents"><p class="table-of-contents-heading">Contents<ol><li> <a href="#Launchpad_policies">Launchpad policies</a><ol><li> <a href="#Trademark_and_logo_licence">Trademark and logo licence</a></li><li> <a href="#Help.2C_Dev.2C_and_News_Content_Licence">Help, Dev, and News Content Licence</a></li></ol></li><li> <a href="#Copyright">Copyright</a><ol><li> <a href="#General_copyright">General copyright</a></li><li> <a href="#Translations_copyright">Translations copyright</a></li><li> <a href="#Bugs_copyright">Bugs copyright</a></li><li> <a href="#Soyuz_copyright">Soyuz copyright</a></li></ol></li><li> <a href="#Automated_querying">Automated querying</a></li><li> <a href="#Project_eligibility">Project eligibility</a></li><li> <a href="#Personal_Package_Archive_eligibility">Personal Package Archive eligibility</a></li><li> <a href="#Privacy_Policy_and_Data_Retention_Statement">Privacy Policy and Data Retention Statement</a><ol><li> <a href="#Launchpad_Overview">Launchpad Overview</a></li><li> <a href="#Launchpad_Accounts">Launchpad Accounts</a></li><li> <a href="#Sources_of_data">Sources of data</a><ol><li> <a href="#Submitted_data">Submitted data</a></li><li> <a href="#Other_Collected_Data">Other Collected Data</a></li></ol></li><li> <a href="#Data_Security">Data Security</a><ol><li> <a href="#Physical_Data_Security">Physical Data Security</a></li><li> <a href="#Data_Usage">Data Usage</a></li><li> <a href="#Unanticipated_Usage">Unanticipated Usage</a></li></ol></li><li> <a href="#Data_Retention">Data Retention</a><ol><li> <a href="#General_Data_Retention_Statement">General Data Retention Statement</a></li><li> <a href="#Projects_and_Project_Groups">Projects and Project Groups</a></li><li> <a href="#File_Downloads_and_Personal_Package_Archives_.28PPA.29">File Downloads and Personal Package Archives (PPA)</a></li><li> <a href="#Bugs">Bugs</a></li><li> <a href="#Branches">Branches</a></li><li> <a href="#Questions">Questions</a></li><li> <a href="#Blueprints">Blueprints</a></li><li> <a href="#Translations">Translations</a></li></ol></li></ol></li></ol></div></td> </tr> </tbody></table></div><span class="anchor" id="line-3"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-4"></span><p class="line867"> <h1 id="Launchpad_policies">Launchpad policies</h1> <span class="anchor" id="line-5"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-6"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Trademark_and_logo_licence">Trademark and logo licence</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-7"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-8"></span><p class="line862">“<em>Launchpad</em>” and the Launchpad "Gem" logo are trademarks of Canonical Ltd. <span class="anchor" id="line-9"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-10"></span><p class="line862">The Launchpad "Gem" logo was created by <a class="https" href="https://launchpad.net/~etretyak">Eugene Tretyak</a> as part of the <a href="/logo">Launchpad Logo Contest</a>. <span class="anchor" id="line-11"></span>The copyright in the Launchpad logo is owned by Canonical Ltd. and is licensed under a <a class="http" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/uk/">Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License</a>. <span class="anchor" id="line-12"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-13"></span><p class="line862">You can use one of the images from the <a href="/BadgeKit">Launchpad Badge Kit</a> to show that your project uses Launchpad. Canonical may revoke your permission to use these images if you make modifications to the images or use them incorrectly (e.g., on a project that does not use Launchpad.net). <span class="anchor" id="line-14"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-15"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Help.2C_Dev.2C_and_News_Content_Licence">Help, Dev, and News Content Licence</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-16"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-17"></span><p class="line862">The documentation contained in the <a class="https" href="https://help.launchpad.net/">Launchpad Help wiki</a>, the <a class="https" href="https://dev.launchpad.net/">Launchpad Development wiki</a>, and on the <a class="http" href="http://blog.launchpad.net/">Launchpad blog</a> is owned by Canonical Ltd. and is licensed under a <a class="http" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/">Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales License</a>. <span class="anchor" id="line-18"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-19"></span><p class="line862">For information about the licence of the Launchpad source code itself, please see <a class="https" href="https://dev.launchpad.net/LaunchpadLicense">https://dev.launchpad.net/LaunchpadLicense</a>. <span class="anchor" id="line-20"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-21"></span><p class="line867"> <h1 id="Copyright">Copyright</h1> <span class="anchor" id="line-22"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-23"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="General_copyright">General copyright</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-24"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-25"></span><p class="line874">Materials hosted on Launchpad are subject to copyright. Refer to the licence notices in the materials for licence information. <span class="anchor" id="line-26"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-27"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Translations_copyright">Translations copyright</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-28"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-29"></span><p class="line874">All translations imported from sources external to Launchpad are owned by the translator that created them. In general, these translations are licensed under the same terms as the software for which they are a translation. <span class="anchor" id="line-30"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-31"></span><p class="line862">All translations in Launchpad are the work of the translator that created them. Translations of individual strings are made available to Canonical and in turn to you under the BSD license (revised, without advertising clause). We require this so that other projects can use these translations as sources for their own translations, without suffering licensing incompatibilities. Translations of groups of strings from the same project, to the extent forming a derivative work of the project, are made available to Canonical and in turn to you under the licence applicable to the project. See the <a class="https" href="https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/LicensingFAQ">Translations Licensing FAQ</a> for details. <span class="anchor" id="line-32"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-33"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Bugs_copyright">Bugs copyright</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-34"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-35"></span><p class="line874">All bug comments are the property of the people who created them. Metadata and statistics generated by the Launchpad Bug Tracker are the property of Canonical Ltd and may be used freely for any purpose as long as accreditation and the Launchpad URL are given along with that data. <span class="anchor" id="line-36"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-37"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Soyuz_copyright">Soyuz copyright</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-38"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-39"></span><p class="line874">All packages contained in distributions or personal package archives within the Launchpad are aggregations of content which may potentially belong to many different people. You should take care to check all copyright messages in source packages and binary packages before assuming you can use them for any purpose. <span class="anchor" id="line-40"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-41"></span><p class="line874">Build logs and other automatically generated content produced by Soyuz and its related components within the Launchpad are the property of Canonical Ltd, unless otherwise specified therein, and may be used freely for any purpose as long as accreditation and the Launchpad URL are given along with the data. <span class="anchor" id="line-42"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-43"></span><p class="line867"> <h1 id="Automated_querying">Automated querying</h1> <span class="anchor" id="line-44"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-45"></span><p class="line862">We provide <a class="https" href="https://help.launchpad.net/Feeds">data feeds</a> and a <a class="https" href="https://help.launchpad.net/API">web service API</a> for automated access to Launchpad's dataset. We strongly recommend you use the feeds and the web service API in preference to screen-scraping or other techniques. If you can't do what you need to do through the feeds and the API, <span class="anchor" id="line-46"></span><ul><li><p class="line862">please <a class="https" href="https://launchpad.net/launchpad/+filebug">file a bug</a> so we can improve our service <span class="anchor" id="line-47"></span></li><li>we will allow the use of custom scripts and robots that access the data on the Launchpad web site <span class="anchor" id="line-48"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-49"></span></li></ul><p class="line874">In return, we ask that you identify the programs you write so that we can track usage and contact you if your client causes us problems. <span class="anchor" id="line-50"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-51"></span><ul><li>When using the web service API, identify your application in the OAuth consumer key you use when authenticating against Launchpad. <span class="anchor" id="line-52"></span></li><li>When accessing feeds from a script, or screen-scraping, identify your application in the 'User-Agent' HTTP header. <span class="anchor" id="line-53"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-54"></span></li></ul><p class="line874">When writing short scripts for yourself, you can identify your application by giving your email address or the URL to your page on Launchpad. When writing scripts for general distribution, you can identify your application by giving the URL to its homepage. If your application is hosted on Launchpad, or it's easy to find your application's homepage by doing a web search on its name, you can just give its name. <span class="anchor" id="line-55"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-56"></span><p class="line874">We reserve the right to limit the access of individual users who make requests too often; and of applications that cause problems for Launchpad due to bugs, inefficiency, or malicious intent. <span class="anchor" id="line-57"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-58"></span><p class="line867"> <h1 id="Project_eligibility">Project eligibility</h1> <span class="anchor" id="line-59"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-60"></span><p class="line874">Launchpad is free of charge for free software projects which meet the following criteria: <span class="anchor" id="line-61"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-62"></span><ul><li>It must include source code. "Source code" means the preferred form of the work for making modifications. For documentation, it might be XML source files; for images, GIMP XCF files; etc. <span class="anchor" id="line-63"></span></li><li>It must allow modification and distribution of modified copies under the same licence. Just having the source code does not convey the same freedom as having the right to change it. <span class="anchor" id="line-64"></span></li><li>It must allow redistribution. <span class="anchor" id="line-65"></span></li><li>It must not require royalty payments or any other fee for redistribution or modification. <span class="anchor" id="line-66"></span></li><li>It must allow these rights to be passed on along with the software. <span class="anchor" id="line-67"></span></li><li>It must not discriminate against persons, groups or against fields of endeavour. The licence of software hosted by Launchpad can not discriminate against anyone or any group of users and cannot restrict users from using the software for a particular field of endeavour - a business for example. <span class="anchor" id="line-68"></span></li><li>It must not be distributed under a licence specific to one operating system. The rights attached to the software must not depend on the programme's being part of Ubuntu, for example. <span class="anchor" id="line-69"></span></li><li>It must not contaminate other software licences. The licence must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with it. For example, the licence must not insist that all other programmes distributed on the same medium be free software. <span class="anchor" id="line-70"></span></li><li>It may require source modifications to be distributed as patches. In some cases, software authors are happy for others to distribute their software and modifications to their software, as long as the two are distributed separately, so that people always have a copy of their pristine code. We are happy to respect this preference. However, the licence must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code. <span class="anchor" id="line-71"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-72"></span></li></ul><p class="line867"> <h1 id="Personal_Package_Archive_eligibility">Personal Package Archive eligibility</h1> <span class="anchor" id="line-73"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-74"></span><p class="line874">Content may be hosted in a Personal Package Archive ("PPA") on Launchpad if it is approved by Canonical or released under a license which falls under one or more of the following: <span class="anchor" id="line-75"></span><ul><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://opensource.org/licenses/category">OSI Approved</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-76"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/">FSF Approved</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-77"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines">DFSG Compliant</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-78"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><a class="https" href="https://ubuntu.com/licensing">Ubuntu "main" and "restricted" Component License Policy Compliant</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-79"></span></li><li>Select Creative Commons Licenses <span class="anchor" id="line-80"></span><ul><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/">CC PD</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-81"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC-BY</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-82"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/">CC BY-ND</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-83"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">CC BY-NC</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-84"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">CC BY-NC-SA</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-85"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">CC BY-NC-ND</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-86"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-87"></span></li></ul></li></ul><p class="line862">To request approval to host content on Launchpad under a license not covered by the list above, bring it up on the <a class="https" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users">Launchpad users mailing list</a> for consideration before uploading it. <span class="anchor" id="line-88"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-89"></span><p class="line874">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. <span class="anchor" id="line-90"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-91"></span><p class="line874">Canonical reserves the right to enforce quotas on the Launchpad service, including (but not limited to) disk space, CPU time, and bandwidth usage. <span class="anchor" id="line-92"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-93"></span><p class="line874">You may not sell, resell, or exploit any portion of the Launchpad service, use of the Launchpad service, or access to the Launchpad service. <span class="anchor" id="line-94"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-95"></span><p class="line867"> <h1 id="Privacy_Policy_and_Data_Retention_Statement">Privacy Policy and Data Retention Statement</h1> <span class="anchor" id="line-96"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-97"></span><p class="line874">Privacy Policy and Data Retention Statement for Launchpad.net <span class="anchor" id="line-98"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-99"></span><p class="line874">This web site is operated by Canonical Ltd. <span class="anchor" id="line-100"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-101"></span><p class="line874">Our postal address is <span class="anchor" id="line-102"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-103"></span><p class="line874">One Circular Road, <span class="anchor" id="line-104"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-105"></span><p class="line874">Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 1AF <span class="anchor" id="line-106"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-107"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-108"></span><p class="line874">The statement explains to contributors to projects hosted by Launchpad the steps that Launchpad and Canonical take to ensure the security of the data submitted and used by Launchpad. <span class="anchor" id="line-109"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-110"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Launchpad_Overview">Launchpad Overview</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-111"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-112"></span><p class="line874">Launchpad stores and processes contributions to open source software and information about the contributors of that data. This Privacy Policy and Data Retention Statement explains Launchpad’s data processing practices and the principles Launchpad seeks to follow in relation to the security and retention of this data. <span class="anchor" id="line-113"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-114"></span><p class="line862">If you feel that Launchpad fails to follow this Privacy Policy and Data Retention Statement or if you wish to give feedback on it, please contact us at <a class="mailto" href="mailto:feedback@launchpad.net">feedback@launchpad.net</a>. <span class="anchor" id="line-115"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-116"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Launchpad_Accounts">Launchpad Accounts</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-117"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-118"></span><p class="line862">You may have a Launchpad account, which you use to log into Launchpad and other associated services. You can use your Launchpad account to add information about yourself to Launchpad. You may use this account to subscribe to receive notifications of changes to bugs, projects, teams, etc.. Data you add to your personal page (e.g. <tt>https://launchpad.net/~<you></tt>) using your Launchpad Account can be changed or removed by you by using the same mechanism used to add it originally. <span class="anchor" id="line-119"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-120"></span><p class="line874">Information added to personal pages is accessible to other users of Launchpad. Users should ensure that personal information is not added to personal pages if such information should not be accessible to other Launchpad users. <span class="anchor" id="line-121"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-122"></span><p class="line874">You can close your Launchpad account and no longer be shown as a Launchpad user. You will no longer receive notifications from Launchpad. However, Launchpad will continue to store and show information about public contributions that you have made. <span class="anchor" id="line-123"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-124"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Sources_of_data">Sources of data</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-125"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-126"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Submitted_data">Submitted data</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-127"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-128"></span><p class="line874">Launchpad users may add information about themselves via their Launchpad accounts and or their personal pages. This information may assist Launchpad in providing services to the contributor such as email notifications of changes to bugs, projects, teams, etc.. <span class="anchor" id="line-129"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-130"></span><p class="line874">Your Launchpad account has the option to store a location for you and to display it on your profile page. Until you set that location yourself, other registered Launchpad users can set it on your behalf. Once your location is set, you can hide it from other users. <span class="anchor" id="line-131"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-132"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Other_Collected_Data">Other Collected Data</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-133"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-134"></span><p class="line874">Launchpad does collect other data that is not displayed publicly. We record what and when pages are visited as well as where the pages were visited from (e.g. IP address). <span class="anchor" id="line-135"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-136"></span><p class="line874">Information about users of Launchpad may be mirrored from publicly available sources, often by automated processes. <span class="anchor" id="line-137"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-138"></span><p class="line874">We use cookies to identify you when you visit this website, as well as to allow you to customize how certain Launchpad pages are displayed to you. <span class="anchor" id="line-139"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-140"></span><p class="line874">Most browsers allow you to choose not to accept cookies, and to remove existing cookies from your system. If you want to know how to do this please look at the help menu on your browser. However, note that you need to accept cookies from our website in order to use all its features. <span class="anchor" id="line-141"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-142"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Data_Security">Data Security</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-143"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-144"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Physical_Data_Security">Physical Data Security</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-145"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-146"></span><p class="line874">We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you. <span class="anchor" id="line-147"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-148"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Data_Usage">Data Usage</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-149"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-150"></span><p class="line874">We process data collected via this website for the purposes of: <span class="anchor" id="line-151"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-152"></span><ul><li>Monitoring and improving the quality of the Launchpad service. <span class="anchor" id="line-153"></span></li><li>Dealing with your inquiries and requests. <span class="anchor" id="line-154"></span></li><li>Maintaining information as a reference tool or general resource. <span class="anchor" id="line-155"></span></li><li>Providing you with information about products and services. <span class="anchor" id="line-156"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-157"></span></li></ul><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Unanticipated_Usage">Unanticipated Usage</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-158"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-159"></span><p class="line862">From time to time, we may use visitor information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this policy. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our web site to notify you of these changes. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our web site periodically. We will also announce these changes on the Launchpad Users mailing list and on <a class="http" href="http://blog.launchpad.net">http://blog.launchpad.net</a>. <span class="anchor" id="line-160"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-161"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Data_Retention">Data Retention</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-162"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-163"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="General_Data_Retention_Statement">General Data Retention Statement</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-164"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-165"></span><p class="line874">Launchpad retains all data submitted by users permanently. <span class="anchor" id="line-166"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-167"></span><p class="line874">Except in the circumstances listed below, Launchpad will only delete data if required to do so by law or if data (including files, PPA submissions, bug reports, bug comments, bug attachments, and translations) is inappropriate. Canonical reserves the right to determine whether data is inappropriate. Spam, malicious code, and defamation are considered inappropriate. Where data is deleted, it will be removed from the Launchpad database but it may continue to exist in backup archives which are maintained by Canonical. <span class="anchor" id="line-168"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-169"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Projects_and_Project_Groups">Projects and Project Groups</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-170"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-171"></span><p class="line874">Projects and project groups may be deleted at the project owner's request. <span class="anchor" id="line-172"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-173"></span><p class="line874">As part of Launchpad’s normal housekeeping, we periodically inspect projects and project groups. We will delete projects or project groups that appear to be abandoned or where no activity has occurred (e.g. a test project or a project containing only spam). In cases where the status of a project/project group is unknown, we may contact the project registrant for clarification prior to deleting it. <span class="anchor" id="line-174"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-175"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="File_Downloads_and_Personal_Package_Archives_.28PPA.29">File Downloads and Personal Package Archives (PPA)</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-176"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-177"></span><p class="line874">We provide a mechanism for users to delete their own PPA submissions as well as for project administrators to delete files being offered as downloads. <span class="anchor" id="line-178"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-179"></span><p class="line874">Once a PPA package has been deleted by the user, or superseded by another package, it will remain on our servers for up to 30 days. After 30 days we will remove the package from our servers. <span class="anchor" id="line-180"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-181"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Bugs">Bugs</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-182"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-183"></span><p class="line874">Bugs and bug comments cannot be deleted by users. Maintainers of a project can mark that a bug does not apply to that project. <span class="anchor" id="line-184"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-185"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Branches">Branches</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-186"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-187"></span><p class="line874">We provide a mechanism for users to delete branches. <span class="anchor" id="line-188"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-189"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Questions">Questions</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-190"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-191"></span><p class="line874">Questions and answers cannot be deleted or hidden by users. <span class="anchor" id="line-192"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-193"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Blueprints">Blueprints</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-194"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-195"></span><p class="line874">Although blueprints cannot be deleted, it is possible to mark a blueprint as "obsolete". Obsolete blueprints are not listed in a project's blueprint listing, but remain accessible via their unique URL. <span class="anchor" id="line-196"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-197"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Translations">Translations</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-198"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-199"></span><p class="line874">An incorrect translation may be corrected by translators approved by the relevant project. <span class="anchor" id="line-200"></span><span class="anchor" id="bottom"></span></div><p id="pageinfo" class="info" lang="en" dir="ltr">Legal (last edited 2020-12-16 09:53:57 by <span title="cjwatson @ 1.general.cjwatson.uk.vpn[10.172.192.14]"><a class="interwiki" href="https://launchpad.net/~cjwatson" title="cjwatson @ 1.general.cjwatson.uk.vpn[10.172.192.14]">cjwatson</a></span>)</p> <div id="pagebottom"></div> </div> <div id="footer"> <p class="menu"> <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/Legal">Terms of use</a> | <a href="https://launchpad.net/feedback">Help improve Launchpad</a> | <a href="https://launchpad.net/faq">FAQ</a> | <a href="/RecentChanges">Recent Changes</a></p> <p> <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/"> <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title" rel="dc:type">Launchpad Help</span> by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="https://canonical.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">Canonical Ltd</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/">Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales License</a>. <img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0;vertical-align:middle;" src="https://licensebuttons.net/l/by/2.0/uk/80x15.png" /></a> </p> <p>© 2004-2019 <a href="https://canonical.com/" target="_blank">Canonical Limited.</a></p> </div> </body> </html>