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> 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



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.


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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