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Originally Posted by shawnjefferson View Post
Question for Hildon Foundation:
Will we ever hear officially what became of negotiations/discussions with Nokia? Are these still on-going?
Sure, as soon as the the process is finished.
And no, negotiations are settled, we're just waiting for another formality to be done: declare HiFo as the sole maintainer, controller and administrator of the Maemo Website and claim full responsibility which means proper adaption of our terms of use, privacy policy, Contribution Guidelines, licenses, trademarks, trademark usage guidelines and trademark FAQ.

Drafts for terms of use, privacy policy, Contribution Guidelines have been sent to council + board and since no concerns have been raised, are awaiting to be updated.

The last 4 are awaiting adaption and everybody is invited to participate.
Licenses - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/h2UoRHiBae
TM Terms Of Use - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/UHGCJQIeQA
TM Usage Guidelines - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mHZKczF0y1
TM FAQ - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/AIc3c8Bnhe

As soon as these changes are approved by Nokia, an official announcement will be made. Basically, we're getting handed out the domain maemo.org and a license to use the trademark maemo.

Originally Posted by joerg_rw View Post
...Nokia ...hosting exactly those flashing tools and images, on maemo.org for years and ...suddenly this wasn't legal anymore. Quite sane!
And your conclusion to blame HiFo is... quite sane?

Originally Posted by joerg_rw View Post
There once been a semi-official mirror of all those files, run by trusted community members and checked for correctness by council, but HiFo did a hell of a job to alienate, scare and threaten those who ran that server, instead of trying to do all they could to keep those guys providing that awesome service to whole community.
And you did a hell of a job to alienate, scare and threaten those who would have to show resposible for those servers... As much as I'd appreciate such an approach, HiFo would have acted illegally to officially support or even pay for such servers and you know that my friend.

Originally Posted by joerg_rw View Post
Links to random untrusted external "illegal" possibly rogue non-authentic and for sure non-maintainable non-stable non-persistent sources as a valid substitute for maemo.org providing the most essential tools and files?
Posting links in this forum or on IRC are not illegal, hosting is. That's the situation and we have to face it. I'm convinced we as a community will find a "sane" workaround.
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