[maemo-developers] Curious: Maemo devices other than Nokia?

[From: Guillem Jover]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 08:13:56 +0200, ext Tapani Pälli wrote:
> Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > Yes, the coordinated way is to get it upstream or at least upstream
> > agreeing to such an API change.  Extending somebody else's API without
> > permission and without changing the soname is, IMNSHO, quite rude.
> 
> Yep, I agree. Release schedules can make hard to stay in sync though.

Sure. But one thing would be to backport stuff that has been already
accepted upstream, the other is to go our own way.

> If free distribution of modified sources is not generally wanted then
> perhaps the licensing model should provide a way to restrict it.

That's not the point. I don't think licenses are the proper tool
to address common sense and/or a proper relationship with
upstream/community.

regards,
guillem