Ex-Kubuntu Leader Accuses Canonical Again of Distributing Linux Illegally | Linux Today

Ex-Kubuntu Leader Accuses Canonical Again of Distributing Linux Illegally

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Marius Nestor
Mar 7, 2016

Recently, Canonical was involved in another case of GPL (GNU General Public License) violation, this time being accused by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) group, a non-profit organization that promotes FLOSS (Free, Libre and Open Source Software) projects, that it distributes the ZFS (Z File System) file system illegally.

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Marius Nestor

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