<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I will gladly second Attila's comments below.</span></div><div> </div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Randy</div></div></div><div>(still top-posting in protest until I get completely off of Ovi)</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Attila Csipa <maemo@csipa.in.rs><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> maemo-community@maemo.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, May 16, 2011 1:05 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Banners on maemo.org<br></font><br>
On Monday 16 May 2011 15:20:39 you wrote:<br>> It also needs to<br>> return changes back from Maemo to Debian to be in compliance with the GPL.<br>> There is a project for this called "DEX" and I strongly advise the council<br>> and all members of Maemo to look into it and participate. This project was<br>> created explicitly for Debian derivatives like Maemo. Canonical's CTO is<br>> actively moving patches from Ubuntu back to Debian through DEX. Maemo<br>> should do this too.<br><br>Just to clarify things - the Council is about <a target="_blank" href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a> and the community <br>built around it. It does not own or distribute Maemo (the OS), which was and <br>is under the Nokia umbrella - and we definitely want to see as much of Maemo <br>open and public as possible, even if with arguable outcome on that front. We <br>also support and respect related distributions like Debian and want to keep <br>the CSSU
completely open and in full compliance with the GPL. It's another <br>matter that most of these updates make little sense to upstream - they are <br>mostly Maemo/mobile specific or are upstream to Debian itself. Another problem <br>is that even with the open parts of Maemo, the maintainers are often Nokians <br>who have moved on, so we have a bunch of patches/diffs that we will have a hard <br>time explaining and rationalizing if we submit them to Debian. Don't get me <br>wrong, personally I really wish to cooperate with Debian as much possible, but <br>it's no trivial task and we're sadly way too short on manpower, so the only <br>way I see serious movement there is for people to step up - and I believe they <br>will have the Council's support for that.<br><br><br><br>Best regards,<br>Attila Csipa<br>_______________________________________________<br>maemo-community mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:maemo-community@maemo.org"
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