[maemo-developers] closed tools, Re: Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle and Diablo released

[From: ed at okerson.com]

> Hi,
>
> Faheem Pervez wrote:
>> You sure you have a choice in the matter? Considering how you're
>> already violating the GPL.

> Dave Neary wrote:
> I don't know the details of the situation. I just want to remind you
> that the GPL is a distribution licence. That's why we don't get all
> Google's changes to the Linux kernel and Apache back upstream. It seems
> that I've seen people say that Nokia doesn't even distribute the initfs
> tools. If that's the case, there wouldn't be any GPL violation.

But Google isn't distributing their Linux Kernel or Apache, Nokia is
distributing the initfs.

Ed Okerson