One day someone untrustworthy will be in charge of the FSF, and ‘or later’ is suddenly going to be #awkward. Linus made the right call there, for sure.
Wait, stop. LXD was conceived at Canonical, and not by anyone driving this fork.
It was funded by Canonical, quite separately from LXC.
The tech lead asked for and got permission to host LXD alongside LXC, arguing it would attract significant contributions, which it did not. Now that tech lead has left the company. Canonical will continue their work, which is the vast majority of LXD code, in their own Github repo, just as you would for something you designed and are investing in. The company hasn’t stolen anything, don’t be drawn into the pitchforks and torches brigade.
This mob madness is why we can’t have nice things in open source. I like LXD and it’s obvious to me that its future releases depend, just as past releases, on continued investment by Canonical. Wishing otherwise is self-defeating.