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#191
Originally Posted by lardman View Post
The driver Nokia have is binary only (and can't [are there possible ways around this...?] be released because it's a single binary, rather than a GPL-compatible wrapper + binary component), ImgTech don't release source.
I got the impression that Nokia was trying to get the source for (a small select group of) us, at the cost of the community devs signing an NDA, but they were failing.

...the organization that helps external developers getting contracts signed is Forum Nokia. Kate Alhola is the Maemo contact there and in fact she is interested and working in finding a way to get this puzzle sorted out in some way.
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If there is some volunteer from community that is willing to fix the driver, I [kate] can try to help get NDA or other reasonable terms for it...
...but there's been nothing since July, and it looks like it ain't gonna happen.

EDIT: Maybe the problem is that nobody's contacted Kate and said, "I am willing to sign that NDA, will you help it happen?"
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