Not if it's GPL'd.. they would have no say.. and they would have intentionally done it that way when they licensed it GPL.

Unless the developer is *charging* for their app - which I don't think anybody here is, since you can't charge someone to install from the maemo repositories - then this won't ever be an issue.

Now when Ovi goes live and there is a "pay" apps through that then sure.. but that isn't the "community".. thats another company or person selling a complete app. If what they are releasing is something Nokia determines should be standard on their phone, they can code their own and release it. But this problem exists on all devices, whether iPhone, Android, or whatever.