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This would be really exciting if Canonical weren't using this in part because it helps them de-GPL their Linux distro.
Inb4 people say that it's impossible to do anything shitty and if they did, people would just fork ๐ด That isn't how it works. Defaults matter and most people aren't going to go out of their way to learn about this or replace their distro when they start locking it down.
Most of Canonical's software, including things like multipass and lxd are GPL or AGPL licensed. Even their corporate website is LGPL'd.
No, they're dual licensed. Canonical has users contributing signing a Contributor License agreement, in which they agree to allow Canonical to distribute alternatively licesed, or proprietary versions.
This change was somewhat controversial, and partially why Incus was forked from LXD.