Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

[Martin Jansa]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 07:05:10PM +0000, Bob Ham wrote:
> > Your accusations sounds like if Nikolaus is using OHANDA clearly defined
> > label without fulfilling requirements defined by OHANDA.
> 
> Well, I'm not sure how you get that impression.  It's not like it's a
> matter of adherence to a collection of finely detailed criteria.

In source code repository you also need to explicitly say which license
is applied and only after that you're obliged to follow selected license
rules.

If wiki page related to the project says that the code is "free" or
"open" then it doesn't automatically mean that it's GPL-2.0 or any other
open license - so you don't have detailed criteria if that project can
say that it's "free" or "open" on their own page.

We're not talking about license text delivered with gta04, we're talking
about home page of project which is trying to attract normal people (who
maybe never heard about floss).

> Nikolaus denies access to the source files for his hardware.  It's not a
> subtle conflict.  It flies in the face of the open hardware movement.
> To be honest, I'm dumbfounded that there can be any confusion over it.

No, he does not. You cannot download them in format most convenient for
you, but that doesn't mean it's not "open hardware" (without any
footnote that OHANDA or any other official terminology is used)

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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