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2011-01-04 , 17:53
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Define compliant. I mean, it's an open source OS, right? What compliance do you speak of that I'm more than likely not aware of?
Basically to be able to use the MeeGo trademark you need to be compliant.

http://wiki.meego.com/Quality/Compliance

Long story short it means you can't remove a lot of things from the system, butcher it, claim it's MeeGo and have disappointed users not have their applications work on your devices...

Or as some has done, dump the user experience on top of OpenSUSE, with no sight of MeeGo Core and make a product with a name close to MeeGo that gets confused by bloggers and newssites for being MeeGo-based, where MeeGo applications wouldn't function properly on..

Compliance is a negatively-laden word but in practice it is just trademark enforcement and is very similar to many other distributions such as OpenSUSE's, Ubuntu's or Fedora's.

The goal for compliance is to avoid fragmentation..
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