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		hansjorg on Jan 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spotify position in support of systemd in the defa... > I'm not really sure why Canonical doesn't just GPL like everyone else and leave it at that That is about copyright, not about the license. Organizations who requires this includes the FSF and Mozilla for example. See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html

bkor on Jan 18, 2014 | [–]

But FSF/GNU contributions are guaranteed to stay under a Free Software license. Canonical is not similar. Not at all the same situation. Further, IMO FSF/GNU/Mozilla are also bad for requesting this.

warp on Jan 18, 2014 | [–]

The FSF doesn't require this for all GNU projects. Each GNU project can decide if they want to require a CLA or not.

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