Re: opinions of snappy packages

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Jonathan Carter <jcarter@linux.com> writes:

> It's a pity about the Canonical CLA, because it seemed to have hurt
> other promising projects like bzr and upstart.

Definitely. Canonical's insistence on arrogating to themselves the power
to alter the license on any contribution – a power they refuse to grant
to anyone else in the code base – is exactly the behaviour that kept
numerous people from contributing at all under those terms.

However, those who arrogate that power simply deny that could happen
<URL:https://lwn.net/Articles/454391/>.

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