Thread: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
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jalyst is offline jalyst
2012-07-10 , 20:34
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#423
Originally Posted by geneven View Post
How many companies would get a guarantee from Nokia that there wouldn't be legal problems with their using Meego? Usually companies don't issue such statements. Nokia is demonstrating that it is arm and arm with Jolla.
MeeGoCE (which MeR+Nemo/Plasma/Cordia etc & Jolla is based on) was never "Nokia's".
The name itself isn't even owned by Nokia, the LF owns the name...
I'm sure at some point some core parts of their OS would require licensing of Nokia IP.*
But that has zero to do with them having to "borrow/license MeeGo" from Nokia.

*maybe they already have.