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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
We asked the Mer team to list the *3rd party* closed source packages they need, since they don't belong to Nokia and therefore we need to make sure the owners are fine with the deal... This is more or less what we have already said about the closed source components owned by Nokia:

We don't see any problem with the idea of redistributing Nokia owned
software to owners of Nokia devices, and the question to be decided is only the best way to do it.


Nokia has never said anything like that.
Thanks Quim. Between you and Stskeeps, I've got it all straightened out in my head now.

This seems much more sane now that I understand that the Nokia request is about third-party components, and the justification for Nokia components is a request from the Mer team, not Nokia.
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