[maemo-community] Council Meeting

[From: robert bauer]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:53 PM, <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:

>
> > 3) Get a permanent licence grant for maemo.org to ship Nokia binaries
> > (e.g. flasher, firmware) and use them in the build process (SDKs in
> > autobuilder and COBS). This would have practical advantage and
> > requires formalising something permanently which is already happening.
>
> The current setup works in this sense, right? What are the actual concerns
> or risks?
>
> A legal entity can only make a formal agreement with another legal entity.
> That was/is the case of the KDE Free Qt Foundation, which seems to be a
> source of inspiration of this proposal -
> http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php
>
> "maemo.org" is just an Internet domain (owned by Nokia). The Maemo
> community is not a legal entity.
>
>
> You can have a "copyleft" type license that is not with another legal
entity.  Also, what is the agreement with apps.formeego.org for Nokia
binaries?  Are they are a legal entity?

Please also read the logs for the two community OBS meetings.  The current
working presumption is that there will be a separate legal entity for the
community OBS.

Rob
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