On Jan 28, 2025 18:20, Santiago Torres-Arias <santiago@archlinux.org> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 10:20:15AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
> I have concerns with putting a WSL image into the official store but I am
> fine with us offering an easy way to setup WSL.

Speaking of the store, wasn't a previous attempt by shibumi to do this
get blocked on some sort of store sheananigans? I think it'd be useful
to pull that context up.

-S

My attempts are more than 5 years old. AFAIK, the consensus was that "We", as Arch Linux, do not want to support a WSL image and do not support a "big and evil tech company" (not my words).

Another major concern was the trademark problem. Back then, people digged into the WSL terms of service for official images and there were 1-2 sentences in it that people didn't like.

Out of my head: The most concerning sentence was related to "advertisement". An official Arch Linux image allows Microsoft to use our trademark material (Logo, Slogan, etc) as they want to.

I can try to dig up the old mail thread if someone is interested.

- shibumi