“contributor license agreement” is such a broad term, a CLA is not bad in all cases. There are plenty of CLAs that are not about one-way proprietarization of software. Examples of OK CLAs are “You agree that you actually have the right to contribute code” or “If you don’t specifically attach add a license header, the MIT license is being used”.
Obviously companies like Canonical use the term CLA to make their practices look less shady that it actually is.
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Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word “Linux” in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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