Aaron Sowry wrote: > Knut Yrvin wrote: >> Hi Yaroslav and all the good contributors to Freerunner, >> >> I got a short answer on your second question :) >> >> On Tuesday 29. July 2008, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: >> >> >>> another question (sorry if I missed answer in some of the threads) -- I >>> wonder if you are the only person dedicated by Trolltech (or Nokia) to >>> work on qtopia for openmoko? >>> >> Holger Freyther was working on supporting Qtopia on OpenEmbedded paid by >> Trolltech for almost half a year, also benefiting the Freerunner effort. >> He is now contributing through OpenMoko, and I think he's doing a good >> job. We will increase our effort supporting free software. That will be >> expressed in actions instead of words. >> >> I'm planning to invite some of the heavy contributors using Qt in >> Freerunner to a round table session in Brisbane Australia. There are >> several things on the agenda, but it boils down to what Trolltech can >> improve. The only reason I as a community manger has not been faster, is >> all the work with the Nokia acquisition planning. When you include my >> usual travelling to free software events, there has been no time left to >> cover more bases. >> >> >>> It is just interesting ;-) also it would >>> be great if you could summarize in few words (if you feel like it) what >>> are the future directions you and your team are going to accomplish for >>> qtopia on FR? would be there a 'long term support' of any kind for >>> qtopia on FR? >>> >> Trolltech will further develop, improve and enhance Qtopia. When it comes >> to Freerunner, they are in charge for their plans and actions regarding >> software development. Of course there are cooperation with Trolltech >> engineering, community and some marketing activeties. And we are working >> on improvements there too. >> >> Personally I'm a fan of the Freerunner effort. When I got the opportunity, >> I've sponsored travels and accommodations for persons who present what >> can be done with Freerunner and Open Source on phones. Ole Tange was one >> of the speakers[1] at Open Nordic Mobile in June. He did a really good >> presentation of the Freerunner project and opportunities with free >> software on phones. >> >> 1. http://conference.ez.no/eng/Open-Nordic-Conference-2008/Program >> >> We have shown the prover of Qtopia with Neo 1973 since Open Source in >> Mobile September 2007. We also got a demo called Qt Everywhere with a >> touch screen program launcher using PictureFlow[2]. We are running that >> on Neo at all our trade shows and some of the free software events: >> >> 2. http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/PictureFlow?content=75348 >> >> Several people are working on the program for Mobile Developer Days 2008 >> (MDD) in Berlin 10-14 September (the conference will be from Sept 10-12, >> the weekend Sept 12-14 will be a code camp). Last year a couple of >> OpenEmbedded/Freerunner developers participated at MDD in Denmark. We >> hope that more can join this year in Berlin. I know more people will join >> from Nokia this year. >> >> 3. >> http://mobiledevices.kom.aau.dk/team_and_organization/events/mobile_developer_days_2008/ >> >> This was maybe not a short answer, but it shows that we are committed and >> really pleased with the progress of Freerunner and the use of Qtopia. The >> question now is when and how to organise our round table trip to >> Australia :) >> >> Best regards >> >> Knut Yrvin >> > I very much appreciate the work Trolltech/Nokia have put in to the > Qtopia release and the support which they have shown for the Freerunner > project and open-source mobile in general - thank you, I always enjoy > reading your posts on the mailing lists. > > I have a couple of questions - I read somewhere on the Openmoko wiki > that (to paraphrase) "enough of the Qtopia release is open-source that > you can run it on the Freerunner without the proprietary components".
Qtopia is 99.8% completely open source. Only some proprietary DRM components are not available. But who wants DRM anyway? > I > know Qt has gradually migrated to open licenses over the course of > history, It was not really gradual at all. Qt has been GPL'd since Qt 2.2. > but what is the current licensing status of the Freerunner > Qtopia release? GPL. > How much is open-source and how much is proprietary? Qtopia on the Neo is completely GPL. > And > if I can finish with a horribly vague question, how much of the > open-source component of Qtopia is contributed back to the Openmoko > project in a usable fashion (i.e. do the open-source components rely on > a proprietary component None whatsoever. > [or Qtopia-specific feature such as writing > directly to framebuffer] to work and therefore are only open-source in > the context of Qtopia development, or are they totally portable to > ASU/FSO with little or no modification?) Yes. :) -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Systems Group, Trolltech, a Nokia company _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
