<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 13/6/08, Dave Neary <i><bolsh@gnome.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Dave Neary <bolsh@gnome.org><br>Subject: Re: maemo.org community leadership - the maemo.org Community Council<br>To: dariusjack2006@yahoo.ie<br>Cc: "maemo-developers@maemo.org List" <maemo-developers@maemo.org>, "Ryan Abel" <rabelg5@gmail.com><br>Date: Friday, 13 June, 2008, 4:47 PM<br><br><pre>Hi Darius,<br><br>Darius Jack wrote:<br>> Please visit Global Alliance on Open Source Software<br>> <http://groups.google.com/group/globalalliance4u?hl=en><br>> http://groups.google.com/group/globalalliance4u?hl=en<br>> to see how it works.<br><br>I had a look at your site - very interesting.<br><br>Global Alliance on Open Source
Software<br><br>Group info:<br>Members: 1<br>Activity: Low activity<br><br>What kind of an alliance is this? Just asking.<br><br>-- My dear friend.<br>Thank you for visiting this place.<br>Alliance is a form of collateral agreement.<br>It may take some time to arrange and ink one.<br><br>As you can see<br>there are 32 members at Nokia Internet Tablet<br>http://groups.google.com/group/nokia-internet-tablet?hl=en<br><br>and 2 at iPhone<br>http://groups.google.com/group/iPhone4u?hl=en<br><br>But don't ask me to tell you the number of lurkers at iPhone.<br><br><br>> Working for Nokia Corporation on corporate products is really great think.<br>> But please aware, any software code is still copyrighted to its author<br>> not Nokia<br>> and today and forever.<br><br>For Nokia employees this is not an issue, it is very clear that Nokia<br>owns copyright.<br><br>-- Copyrights to what ?<br><br>For volunteers this is also not an option, since Nokia
does not ask for<br>any copyright assignment, and the licence on maemo software is clear.<br><br>-- my dear friend, there is nothing clear in copyrights.<br>Frankly speaking I was not aware maemo related software<br>has any special copyrights status.<br><br><br>> But please don't advice Nokia to incorporate third party copyrighted<br>> Linux code into one of its product without such writtenm contract or<br>> agreement on transfer of intellectual property rights.<br><br>Just wondering - you do understand the consequences of the GPL and LGPL,<br>don't you?<br><br>- Contacted recently Free Software Foundation to discuss<br>the issue of hardware locked Linux embedded devices.<br>Nobody can fully understand any consequences in comming years<br>of the global competition between corporations.<br><br><br><br>> Nokia should incorporate Maemo.org as a business entity, corporation<br>> and nominate directors, board, officers<br>> and have job
done under supervision and management provided by Nokia.<br><br>That would be a great way to kill the community.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Dave.<br><br>-- <br>maemo.org docsmaster<br>Email: dneary@maemo.org<br>Jabber: bolsh@jabber.org<br><br>--- you say community<br>and I see one moderator at Maemoo.org<br>financed by Nokia or not<br>advising me to delete my reply in this thread.<br><br>There is no community at Maemo.org<br>There is moderation at Maemo.org<br>Free communities of developers don't need moderators<br>advising members to delete their input.<br><br>=====================<br>Just have a look<br><br>==================<br></pre><div><h1 id="message_view_subject">Your message to maemo-developers awaits moderator approval</h1>
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