Originally posted by nll_a
You can fork it at anytime, ditch the CLA and create a whole different beast.
Yeah, I don't get why people think it's better to contribute to non-copyleft open source projects with a license allowing any person to make a closed-source application out of it over GPL3 software with a CLA
I don't think "everyone should have the right to close it up" is a good argument. The less people are allowed to do that, the better.
So the CLA makes it easier for enforcing copyright and stopping GPL violations, hence it's important for Ubuntu.
Worst case scenario Canonical turns upside down and close Ubuntu down, and we just fork it and keep it open forever.
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