Fellowship of FSFE <fellowship(a)fsfeurope.org> wrote:
> - Matthew Garrett criticised Canonical's contributor agreement[19].
> Other copyright assignment tools, such as FSFE's Fiduciary License
> Agreement[20] and the GNU Project's copyright assignment, enable
> developers to prevent their code from being used in non-free software.
> In contrast, Canonical's agreement explicitly states that the company
> may distribute people's contributions under non-free licenses. If you
> value software freedom, FSFE recommends you not to sign agreements
> which make it possible to distribute your code under non-free
> licenses.
Is this recommendation, the reasoning behind it and the process
that led to it documented somewhere?
The recommendation seems to imply that people who prefer or don't
object to non-viral free software licenses don't value software
freedom.
Fabian