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CK Raju, Thrissur wrote: > "Contributions from Foundation members through open collaboration will > be integrated to further enhance the platform. The Foundation will > make selected components available as open source at launch. It will > then work to establish the most complete mobile software offering > available in open source. This will be made available over the next > two years and is intended to be released under Eclipse Public License > (EPL) 1.0." > ..http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2008/pr200810018.html > > And the license is at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html > CK Raju > > On 6/25/08, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wednesday 25 Jun 2008, CK Raju, Thrissur wrote: >>> "Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:20 PM PDT >>> >>> Symbian's decision to make its source code freely available tips the >>> scales in favor of open-source software in smartphones and could make >>> it harder for Microsoft, and even other open-source platforms like >>> Google's Android and Linux, to compete...." >>> >>> Complete story at >>> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147521/symbian_shifts_m >>> obile_world_to_open_source.html CK Raju >> The story goes on to say: >> >> ``They will offer it under a royalty-free license to members of a new >> nonprofit group called the Symbian Foundation.'' >> >> Does that mean sharing of source is limited to members of the >> Foundation? How about independent developers and individuals, can we >> get and use the source or not? >> >> I'll take the announcement with a pinch of salt until the licensing >> terms of the ``open'' Symbian OS are clarified. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- Raju >> -- >> Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ >> GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F >> PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves >> _______________________________________________ >> Fsf-friends mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends >> > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-friends mailing list > [email protected] > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list [email protected] http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends
