Thread: PETITION to Nokia to release the full source code of the Maemo OS to this Community.
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2011-05-30 , 16:55
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Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
I very much doubt a heavy handed legal approach would do anything else but stall Nokia's rattled determination to hold fast, rather a friendly request to bring back at least some of the lost customer support by releasing some or all of the code they have full control over.
Well based on the conflict you and stskeeps had, this is all but friendly conversation.

I am trying to offer reasonable course of actions. Please note that I don't wish to see a burning hole in place of Nokia's HQ.

Here is what I suggest: we do have option of asking politely(which includes 770, N800, N810 and N900), than hopefully receive polite yes/no answer from Nokia. Depending on the answer we can explore the further actions, including investigation if there is a clear GPL violation.

If there is an GPL violation, accepting of the "fixed" closed-sourced binaries would be equal to bribery.

On the other hand if there is no such violation, closed-source binary fixes are acceptable and only solution.
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