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Re:The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition by antihero on Saturday July 21, 2012 @08:43AM (#4274659)
As a British person who voted Lib Dem, I'd need a lot more than a "promise" to quell my worries.
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Re:The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition by jiggy2011 on Saturday July 21, 2012 @08:47AM (#4274663)
If it was part of the license agreement? I don't know how enforceable this would be in practice though.

Perhaps a neutral third party gets code access and a contract with the developer and users as to when/if it will be released?

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Re:The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition by ehamberg on Saturday July 21, 2012 @09:20AM (#4274722)
Perhaps something à la the KDE Free Qt Foundation? (http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...)

The agreement between the Free Qt Foundation and Nokia gives them right to release the latest Qt version under a BSD-style licence if Nokia stop releasing Qt versions (GPL+LGPL).

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Re:The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition by streptomycin on Saturday July 21, 2012 @09:09AM (#4274705)
It can just be a simple contract, like this http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...
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