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I voted for "Release 2006 source code (all, except licensed code as binary)" because I'd like as open a platform as possible. As long as the hardware lasts, I'd like my 770 to remain useful. If Nokia doesn't want to keep releasing updates for the 770 because it's a year and a half old, that's fine, but I wanna at least have the opportunity to fix the annoyances and/or bugs on my own. After I heard from Ari's blog that there'd be no os2007 release for the 770, I used apt-get to grab every component that was available as source for maemo 2.1 and 3.0. There's some big holes.

I'd like it to be possible for a user-created firmware release for the 770. Because of how Nokia licensed some of the software (opera for example), it wouldn't be possible for users to release the binaries for that, but Nokia could release two files - one being all the binary-only stuff that users can use but not redistribute. The other being all open source stuff (including some stuff that Nokia developed and CAN release as open source/free software). This, users could take and change and re-release to others with their modifications.
 

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