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Originally Posted by javispedro View Post
Why would you give the name away, then? :P
Why would I not give his name given this is public information? Maybe you think this is from a private chat between him and me but no, this is freely available in the SFOS telegram chatroom. I thought this was relevant to this conversation and I wanted to make sure this is from a Jolla employee. Otherwise, there is always someone to ask you who is the source, and where you get the info...etc...

Originally Posted by javispedro View Post
all you'd have to do as the "corporate customer" is to claim that you are not giving away possession of the device, just usage
Regarding your second statement, maybe you should support and help Jolla and other companies, maybe as a lawyer consultant, to provide them with the proper use of GPLv3?

For info, I know quite a famous example in France of a company avoiding GPLv3.
An internet provider (FREE) have FOSS in boxes (modem, set-top boxes), see the list of free software in https://floss.freebox.fr/ and you will see that they avoid GPLv3 software too.
In this case, we are talking about a relatively big company (at least for France) so I do not think this is only a problem of Jolla being too small.
FREE (the company, I know their name is not easy to use in sentences along with FOSS :P) had many complaints in the past from the FOSS community. It went to court afaik at several occasions, and one important part of the defense of FREE is that the boxes are not sold but remain its property, and so they are only giving the usage to their customers in a large network. Still they do not use GPLv3.
Hope that helps.
 

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