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

[From: Joseph Charpak]

On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 15:25 -0300, Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) wrote:
> For non-gratis or paid applications, the right channel in my point of
> view would be the Ovi store. 

the problem there is that as a prerequisite to uploading to OVI, you
need to establish some kind of legal entity. Maybe not an actual
company, but something similar, which in the US at least required a
non-trivial financial investment and had tax implications. This made
"iFart" style apps not likely to make it to Ovi as it would cost the
developer more money to upload to ovi then they would ever get back from
selling their app. Nokia promised to review the situation, but did not
promise to actually change the requirement.

See 
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34783 
and
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34661

for full details. It also might have been discussed on this list.


Joseph Charpak
jcharpak at worldnet.att.net