[maemo-developers] Is mauku open source, i.e free or is in non-free?

[From: Ryan Abel]

On Jan 27, 2010, at 2:28 AM, Henrik Hedberg wrote:

> Ryan Abel wrote:
>> On Jan 26, 2010, at 4:07 PM, Henrik Hedberg wrote:
>>> Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Bug #7505 asks if mauku is open or closed. According to the bug report, it looks pretty closed.
>>> ...
>>>> What should we do here? Move this to non-free?
>>>  I am very aware of the meaning "free" here. Mauku was uploaded into the free section because there was (is) no non-free repository in Extras. However, the community insisted to close all external repositories and use Extras instead (done that). In addition, Ovi Store was not (is not, it is still beta) available for distribution channel.
>> http://repository.maemo.org/extras/pool/fremantle/non-free/
> 
>   Thanks, I know. But as I said, "[t]here have not been any discussion, announcements or instructions how to really handle QA in the non-free section." Thus, the non-free section in Extras does not officially exists. There is only procedures how to upload it into extras-devel.

Er, yeah, as far as I'm aware the process is very nearly the same. . . . I'm inclined to believe that you should probably seek to enlighten your opinions with more fact before spreading them around.