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[RFC] On the roles of Maemo Council and Maemo e.V.
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woody14619
2014-09-24 , 22:24
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For those still confused about "if Nokia
owned
the Maemo site", I offer this:
MidGard1, on which the heart of maemo.org runs, uses the
LGPL
(likely v2.1). That license clearly states companies and individuals may use the software in commercial products AND modify it, AND copyright, AND declare ownership of, AND sell or re-distribute
the re-bundled product
.
Henri Bergius
, co-author of MidGard and
full owner
of Nemein,
made this change on the wikipedia page
himself in November 2003, clearly stating this to be the case. He likely did so in order to be able to sell the products of his new company, which offered CMS services based on MidGard1 to various providers, including Nokia.
Anyone claiming that all of Maemo and/or the m.o site are FOSS and "100% open source" is
legally incorrect
. But please, don't take my word on that! Read
the page on LGPL
, and follow the reference links to the FSF page itself and
read the legal document
.
It boils down to this:
Who will you believe when deciding if Nokia
owned
this material and had
legal rights
to assign it to HiFo? You have two choices: Someone named "Joerg_rw" on the internet, who refuses to say anything but "it's all free!" Or the
creator
of the software, the company that sold the CMS system/service to Nokia, the legal team
at
Nokia,
and
a generation of lawyers from the FSF who wrote and maintain the LGPL.
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