maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - On the massive success of the Nokia Innovators contest at bringing us quality N900 software

	Jaffa	2010-10-22 , 14:16
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Originally Posted by Flandry

The hope was that the council would contact Nokia about the situation and get some answers.

Someone would need to raise the issue with the council, perhaps by emailing council@maemo.org. We don't magically appear in threads which mention our name.

Originally Posted by nath

If there is GPLed code inside, the sources would also have to be released to those who bought it, don't they?

Yes, if there is code licensed under the GPL in there, people who receive the binary have a right to ask for the source. If he owns all the copyright for the code he's shipping, though, he could have relicensed those files for his own purposes.

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