Canonical’s IP Policy Is Deliberately Vague, Says Matthew Garrett

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canonicalCanonical’s IP policy seems to remain a hot topic to this day, especially for developers. A conversation between Mark Shuttleworth, the founder for Canonical, and Matthew Garrett, a prominent Linux developer and one of the opponents of Canonical’s IP policy, revealed some interesting information.

Canonical is protecting its assets by using a policy that has been criticized many times. A recent change has been made to the policy after talks with the Free Software Foundation,…