[bryanlarsen]

Canonical very definitely gets paid every time someone spins up an Ubuntu VM on AWS or any other cloud provider. Not much, perhaps, but there are a lot of Ubuntu VM's spun up.

AWS doesn't necessarily have to pay Canonical for Ubuntu VM's, but if they didn't, they wouldn't be able to use the trademark "Ubuntu".

OVH wasn't paying Canonical, got sued because of it, and had to settle.

[mmcclellan]

In the OVH case, a modified kernel was being shipped without (apparently) following the guidelines. I've seen an AWS suffix on kernel upgrades and they may or may not have an agreement to pay, but I'm thinking _very definitely_ is stated too strongly.

[vrutkovs]

Ah, interesting. So they basically sell the right to use their trademark?

[bryanlarsen]

They also supply support and custom images.

[aritmo]

No, see the simbling reply.