The issue is not about "MidGard ownership". It never was. That's something Joerg made up. The issue is someone claiming that the servers, and the software running on them, are not legally held and operated by HiFo. By making the argument that Nokia was never in a position of ownership, Joerg is trying to "prove" that they had no right to to grant HiFo that ownership.

His argument, for some time, has been that we didn't need to negotiate at all with Nokia, because it's "all FOSS" and open source. Despite the clear indicators to the contrary, like the EULAs and clear ownership chain Nokia and HiFo can and has documented repeatedly.

Understand, the issue here is about authority. Joerg wants to claim that HiFo was ancillary to the whole process, and wasn't and still isn't needed. He's applying that same "logic" to the e.V. now. Reality is, without a legal entity, Nokia would have just shut the servers down, and we'd all have the equivalent of a Zune right now. And this argument wouldn't have a place to even be happening.