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[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Its not a one way street but this makes more libre thing. Canonical didnt make it proprietary to create a one way street but made it more libre by adopting AGPL license which gives users more rights to the code

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Its not a one way street but this makes more libre thing. Canonical didnt make it proprietary to create a one way street but made it more libre by adopting AGPL license which gives users more rights to the code

Why is there still a CLA that allows them and only them to sell proprietary versions then? Don't fall for Canonical's PR bullshit.

Read https://github.com/canonical/lxd/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#license-and-copyright