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

[From: quim.gil at nokia.com]

Hi, I'm following the discussion but bare with me these days since I'm in the Desktop Summit well away from the office and the people to ask about this are very possibly on holidays until August (just like myself after the Summit).

If you think we are violating any license or doing something wrong in general please file a bug or ping in an existing one, CCing me. This is the best way to discuss and solve a problem between different people across the Summer.

Thank you!

Quim

--- original message ---
From: "Hassan Mohammed.2 (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <mohammed.2.hassan at nokia.com>
Subject: Re: closed tools,      Re: Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle and Diablo  released
Date: 3rd July 2009
Time: 3:53:52 pm


Oops. Forgot to CC him.

On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 14:33 +0200, ext ed at okerson.com wrote:
> > 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.

Which is why Nokia is violating the GPL (I haven't checked myself that
code is not being distributed for stuff in initfs).

I'd say the best option is to poke Quim Gil as I assume he's the correct
person to handle this (I'm CC'ing him although I assume he reads this
list).

Cheers,

--
Maemo Software
Nokia Devices

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