shipitfish: (cincinnati-kid-betting)
shipitfish ([personal profile] shipitfish) wrote in [personal profile] mjg59 2016-12-03 04:56 pm (UTC)

Software Freedom Conservancy published an analysis which explains why Canonical, Ltd.'s IP policy turns the non-copylefted software in Ubuntu into non-Free-Software: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jul/15/ubuntu-ip-policy/

The GPL'd stuff is still Free Software, because they have a "trump" clause for that, but like any non-copyleft software, you can turn the other stuff into non-Free, which Canonical, Ltd. does here.
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