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#530
Originally Posted by SD69 View Post
standard operating procedure

and it's not lawyers who do it. Nowadays, copyrights are automatic and copyright notices unnecessary.
makes community efforts a pain in the behind tho, if every little file needed needs to be cleared with the mothership first. Makes me wonder if nokia is really committed to this open source thing, or if its just a helpful source of building blocks to avoid having to reinvent various wheels.

in other words, using copyright this way seems to be an abuse of the very reasons it got set up in the first place, as it has nothing to do with protecting a individual creative from being exploited by a large "publisher".
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Last edited by tso; 2010-08-04 at 13:30.
 

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