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2014-12-20 , 05:35
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Originally Posted by chainsawbike View Post
simply put i am not aware of the licence imposed by Nokia when software was uploaded to them, unless it explicitly allowed Nokia to pass on the distribution rights to a 3rd party it would be costly to even investigate the possibility of doing it.
That's quite a dismissive stance to take considering we don't yet have a good solution to the problem. I'm not asking for a costly investigation, just a simple enquiry. I'd like get a better understanding of the situation with Opera and how it is that they have been granted distribution rights to a large part of Nokia's software catalogue.

It might even be worth contacting Opera to ask why they will not be hosting Fremantle and Harmattan applications but have agreed to host applications for other dead platforms such as S60/Symbian. After all, they are one of the few companies who actually bothered to develop for our relatively obscure platforms.

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I asked the question on this Opera blog. Let's vote it up.
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