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Originally Posted by Graham Cobb View Post
Good to hear. But I think the problem is wider than just the binary blobs. It would be great to hear that someone is working on an inventory of all the things we need licences to distribute.
The problem is wider even than that.


Originally Posted by Graham Cobb View Post
I would strongly prefer that the answer to your question is "anyone". In other words, I would prefer licences where Nokia says anyone is free to distribute the item.
My preference as well.


Originally Posted by Graham Cobb View Post
I do not believe a legal entity has a future -- even if one was established initially I think it would very rapidly fall by the wayside and shut itself down once the community declines to very small levels ...
I disagree. I think there is plenty enough interest in a self-governing community promoting the only existing GNU/Linux SW for mobile devices.

Originally Posted by Graham Cobb View Post
I don't want to see the material limited to being distributed by one particular entity.
Neither do I. The only thing worse is that it never gets distributed.
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