Thread: On the massive success of the Nokia Innovators contest at bringing us quality N900 software
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2010-10-23 , 10:59
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#107
Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
You love to stir the pot don't you.

Has anybody asked for the source and been denied?
Has anybody contacted Fabien or Guillaume?

Does locating this source have more to do with compiling this ap without having to pay for it then it does with an interpretation of the license?

I don't know, but for $3 bucks I'm happy.
For £3 I'm happy too.

I've asked Ovi Store for the source, as the binaries were downloaded from their repo, but so far have received no response other than an auto-acknowledgement promising a response in 48 hours. I've bought the software in question, so I'm not motivated to get it for free, and have no intention of passing the source on to anyone else if and when Ovi Store provide it.

I'm curious to know why Ovi are apparently distributing GPL'd code without satisfying the licence conditions. Perhaps they believe that the Ovi Store T&Cs negate their GPL obligations. Perhaps they do. IANAL.
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