[maemo-developers] maemo.org community leadership - the maemo.org Community Council

[From: Darius Jack]

--- On Fri, 13/6/08, Dave Neary <bolsh at gnome.org> wrote:
From: Dave Neary <bolsh at gnome.org>
Subject: Re: maemo.org community leadership - the maemo.org Community Council
To: dariusjack2006 at yahoo.ie
Cc: "maemo-developers at maemo.org List" <maemo-developers at maemo.org>, "Ryan Abel" <rabelg5 at gmail.com>
Date: Friday, 13 June, 2008, 4:47 PM

Hi Darius,

Darius Jack wrote:
> Please visit Global Alliance on Open Source Software
> <http://groups.google.com/group/globalalliance4u?hl=en>
> http://groups.google.com/group/globalalliance4u?hl=en
> to see how it works.

I had a look at your site - very interesting.

Global Alliance on Open Source Software

Group info:
Members: 1
Activity: Low activity

What kind of an alliance is this? Just asking.

-- My dear friend.
Thank you for visiting this place.
Alliance is a form of collateral agreement.
It may take some time to arrange and ink one.

As you can see
there are 32 members at Nokia Internet Tablet
http://groups.google.com/group/nokia-internet-tablet?hl=en

and 2 at iPhone
http://groups.google.com/group/iPhone4u?hl=en

But don't ask me to tell you the number of lurkers at iPhone.


> Working for Nokia Corporation on corporate products is really great think.
> But please aware, any software code is still copyrighted to its author
> not Nokia
> and today and forever.

For Nokia employees this is not an issue, it is very clear that Nokia
owns copyright.

--   Copyrights to what ?

For volunteers this is also not an option, since Nokia does not ask for
any copyright assignment, and the licence on maemo software is clear.

-- my dear friend, there is nothing clear in copyrights.
Frankly speaking I was not aware maemo related software
has any special copyrights status.


> But please don't advice Nokia to incorporate third party copyrighted
> Linux code into one of its product without such writtenm contract or
> agreement on transfer of intellectual property rights.

Just wondering - you do understand the consequences of the GPL and LGPL,
don't you?

- Contacted recently Free Software Foundation to discuss
the issue of hardware locked Linux embedded devices.
Nobody can fully understand any consequences in comming years
of the global competition between corporations.



> Nokia should incorporate Maemo.org as a business entity, corporation
> and nominate directors, board, officers
> and have job done under supervision and management provided by Nokia.

That would be a great way to kill the community.

Cheers,
Dave.

-- 
maemo.org docsmaster
Email: dneary at maemo.org
Jabber: bolsh at jabber.org

--- you say community
and I see one moderator at Maemoo.org
financed by Nokia or not
advising me to delete my reply in this thread.

There is no community at Maemo.org
There is moderation at Maemo.org
Free communities of developers don't need moderators
advising members to delete their input.

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