Nokia Invested In Mozilla?

Pine UK writes "The Register, is reporting that Nokia has invested in the Mozilla Foundation. This news should come as a shock to Opera, who in recent times have had a very large market share in the area of portable device browsers. Opera has also been the browser choice for Nokia, who ship it with all their Symbian 'smartphones.' Nokia have not yet confirmed nor denied their investment in Mozilla."

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If you fork, you have to pay developers.

Who the hell modded this up? The Mozilla source is GPL. The only time you might have to pay the developers is if you're wishing to distribute Mozilla as a closed source app, in which case you'd need to negotiate an alternate (non-GPL) license with each contributor to the codebase. Because it's GPL, Nokia can fork it all they want, call it Nokzilla or whatever, and code it up to their hearts content and they wouldn't have to pay anyone. The only caveat is that the GPL virus kicks in and they have to also release their source code to be GPL compliant.