Thread: [Under vote] Open source software distributed via store.ovi.com
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2009-11-24 , 21:14
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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
Having Extras as a proxy to publish in Ovi would bypass the current requirements to become an Ovi publisher. Ovi currently won't approve as publisher one registered individual, so they are consistent not willing to give direct publishing rights to a community of individual developers going through a different filter.
But Quim-- don't you see how this doesn't really resolve the main sticking point, ie, the legal constraints?

- developers cannot use maemo.org as a collective for publishing direct to Ovi, ergo they must form some sort of legal operating entity conforming to VAT, et al, requirements;

- developers CAN use maemo.org as an indirect way to publish to Ovi

How is it that maemo.org can absorb liability for the latter but not the former? Is it solely the potenial of profit that is the difference? If so then I don't get that...
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