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#286
Originally Posted by MiCRoPhoBIC View Post
@damagedspline

A little bit offtopic, but not really. I understand you're not representative for Waze, but just compiling/porting it for us, maemo users, so big thanks again. Do you know what's the deal with the v3 change. Apparently, they don't publish the source code anymore, and they have stated that the license of version 3 is not more GPL. They are closing the source? It becomes proprietary ? If this is true...I will not have reason to contribute anymore to this app on my N900. Do you have more information about wtf they are doing and is this the future of waze (free as in beer, not as in freedom proprietary app)?
as @zogg pointed out, waze 3.0 was rewritten from scratch and thus they are no longer bounded by GPL rules.
note that waze was never true opensource as there was no mainline source repository that allowed you to commit fixes/features.
the source is not open but the maps are in the way that u can freely use and edit thier maps and commit changes to it.
i also dont understand the contribute part....