One of the interesting questions is whether Arto (future CEO of HMD) will be listening in regards to differentiation to key operators (good for building critical sales volume) or to consumers (building customer loyalty and Word Of Mouth).

BTW, the Nokia N9 UI was never licensed (not to Jolla, not to anybody else to my knowledge). That's why Jolla had to go back to Harmattan framework and redo a foxy UI. Imagine, HMD would have the license to the N9 UI, the Swipe UI, and would tell to Foxconn to leave a developer/root option on the device?