[gribbly]

I'd say nothing, Wayland is used on mobile and embedded, the reason Canonical made Mir was so that the had full control/ownership of the display solution and thus could charge a license fee to proprietary vendors who wanted to use it.

Nothing inherently wrong with that, but for someone outside of Canonical it's hard to be interested in a competing solution which only exist in order to pad Canonical's bottom line.

Which was also the reaction from the rest of the Linux ecosystem.

[sametmax]

Why though ? They can just licence Ubuntu the way they want, they could do that with the distrib already.

[gribbly]

Because they had Mir under a CLA which meant Canonical (and only Canonical) could offer it under different terms, which included proprietary licences.

They can't license Ubuntu any way they want, because Ubuntu is 99% software which comes from (and are owned by) other sources, not Canonical.

[andoon]

I don't understand. Mir is under the GPLv3, what stops anybody from using it any way they want? How was Canonical supposed to profit from it?

[bkor]

GPLv3 = release code, cannot link to proprietary software. For some graphics chipsets some company might (need) to do that. Then you'll need to go to Canonical to get Mir under a special license just for your company. Then Canonical gets some money.

I have nothing against Canonical wanting to follow this. I do not like only one company being able to offer a different license (their CLA). So anything like that is a no-go for me.