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Canonical has updated the licensing terms so that it's now fully compliant with GPL (GNU General Public License) after discussions with the Free Software Foundation that took almost two years.
The majority of the Ubuntu users don't even know this issue existed, and for the most part, it's not really a riveting subject unless you're involved in the development process. Canonical is the company that builds Ubuntu, it has trademarks in place and its own licensing terms for the operating system. As it turns out, those licensing terms weren't exactly compliant with the GPL specifications, but that has changed now.
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