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

[From: Tapani Pälli]

Hello;

ext Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Tapani Pälli 
>
> | ext Guillem Jover wrote:
> | > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 13:49:19 +0200, ext Tapani Pälli wrote:
> | >   
> | >> What's the problem? Why we could not have our own custom functionality
> | >> in our Gtk+ tree?
> | >
> | > Huh? Because that's just wrong, it's a layering violation as Riku
> | > said, and because we are extending the API in an uncoordinated way
> | > with upstream. Reminds me of embrace and extend...
> | 
> | Well, I guess there could be times when a distribution needs to extend
> | package functionality with own patches. It can be done in coordinated way.
>
> 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. If
free distribution of modified sources is not generally wanted then
perhaps the licensing model should provide a way to restrict it.


// Tapani Pälli

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