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

[From: Mohammed Hassan]

I guess it'll have to wait then. I'm also leaving this Friday and don't
have much time to start poking people around...

Cheers,

On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 22:46 +0200, Gil Quim (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote:
> 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,
> 
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