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Originally Posted by korbé View Post
And compared, which is the most Libre: Android phone or Maemo MIT ?
Libre? or Open?

Android is definitely more Open. It's 100% open source (the base dist., but there are add-ons in, say, the HTC Hero version of Android, that are closed; but, IIRC, the G1 version of Android, and the Mytouch version of Android, are both 100% open source). But the upper layers are not GPL, they're Apache licensed. So they're not as libre as the lower layers of both Maemo and Android. But I don't know what percentage that is (to compare with the parts of Maemo that are neither Open nor Libre).

Is that more or less than the closed layers of Maemo? Is "open but not libre" better? Dunno.
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