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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
i don't like the word "pirating" as long as no weapons and violence are involved. but you need to question if the person who distributes this gratis package does in fact follow the terms and conditions of the GPL. my impression is he doesn't - and his excuse is that others maybe don't, either. (which we're not certain about.)

it's useless to discuss this, though. it would be a lot more important to find a way to help developers distribute free software, be it under the GPL or a similar license, in the ovi store... both gratis and commercial. it will also be important to help nokia understand possible implications, risks and chances... make it clear that there is a chance it could work. this will be a tiresome, slow process. it's the free software community who must be interested in this to succeed, nokia will not put much effort into this particular subject. it's a chance we have now - we don't know if it'll still be there tomorrow. sabotage is not useful at this stage.
I am the owner of the box that I share the package by accident. I put it there after I check the about box and it says "GPL". I did understand GPL, involved with the translation of it into my language and I am a core developer on some GNU projects.

I put it there and ask for opinions on the IRC and decided later I would not put it on the TMO since they point out that the developers of the mobile version were having some trouble against themselves, however the link leaked and I am not blaming Matan or anyone for posting it.

In short, I was going to remove it and I forgot, but I am not feeling sorry about that.
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Last edited by object; 2010-10-23 at 21:21.