Thread: Confirmed/CAUTION: N900 Ovi Apps require Corporation + $1M USD Corporate General Liability Insurace
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2009-11-20 , 14:26
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Originally Posted by jaark View Post
Your example was GIMP with a polished UI. AFAIK, GIMP is licensed under the GPL so your resulting version will be subject to the GPL.
Both of your examples involve software under non-GPL licenses.
I don't think you understand the point I'm making.

Some here appear to be glad that Ovi doesn't make it easy to sell software for the N900 under the mistaken belief it will keep commercial development out and instead foster OSS applications which are free.

My point is OSS and Commercial are not competing concepts at all so the likely result is simply a lack of applications and consequently a lack of users.
 

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