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Yes and by not continuing that licensing but instead adopting AGPL+CLA Canonical create their usual one way street.
Its not a one way street but this makes more libre thing. Canonical didnt make it proprietary to create a one way street but made it more libre by adopting AGPL license which gives users more rights to the code
Why is there still a CLA that allows them and only them to sell proprietary versions then? Don't fall for Canonical's PR bullshit.
Read https://github.com/canonical/lxd/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#license-and-copyright