Re: Nokia 770 Opie port?

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.opie.devel
Organization Institute of Computer Science, University of Frankfurt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Montag, den 07.11.2005, 16:41 +1000 schrieb Lorn Potter:
> Trolltech does not use QPL code developed by the community in our products.
> 
> Nokia, on the other hand, is using community developed code for it's own 
> profit (which is what LGPL is all about, and thats back to my original 
> point). How does it feel working for free?

Better. Trolltech GPL'ing Qtopia had no effect on further versions since
it was impossible to get code into this GPL version upstream. To make it
into the official version, you needed to give up all copyright, so that
Trolltech could continue selling it.

With Nokia, it looks like there is essentially a two-way code flow
[We->Nokia + Nokia->We] instead of the one-way code flow we had with
Qtopia. That alone makes me feel better because it looks like Nokia is
valuing our contributions more than just for advertising how many open
source apps there are for the platform.

-- 
Regards,

Mickey.
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