Open development/Why the closed packages: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:07, 4 October 2008

Open source is the licensing model preferred by Nokia in the development of Maemo. There are some reasons to have exceptions, though:

- Brand: Nokia wants to keep a strong brand and identity avoiding any risks of dilution.

- Differentiation: Nokia wants to gain competitive advantage in certain areas by keeping the related software closed.

- Legacy: Nokia keeps some components minimally maintained - the work of opening them has an unclear outcome.

- IPR & licensing issues: Nokia avoids serious risks brought by patents, copyrights or complicated licensing situations.

- Third party: Nokia does not own the code and therefore does not decide on the license.

If you want to know the specific reasons for a package to be closed please list it below.

Andre: Adding the four requests that we have in Bugzilla:

Requested at Bug 1584 including comments:

Alarm framework is open source, but apparently the sources are lost/missing as explained in the bug.

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 * [https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3195 Connection applet]
 * [https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3199 Display applet]
+Requested at [https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584 Bug 1584] including comments:
+* activate_panel
+* bt-cal
+* cal-tool
+* fb-chaimage
+* text2screen
+* wlan-cal
+* wlan-fw-update
+* retu-time
+* show_image
+* dsme
+* battest
+* bootstate
+* dsmetool
+* dspctl
+* waitfordsme
+* the script linuxrc
+* libbmeic.so
+* libcal.so
+* libdsme.so
+* libppu.so
+* libactivitymonitor.so
+* libcalmodule.so
+* libhwwd.so
+* libinactivity-blank.so
+* liblifeguard.so
+* libperipheral.so
+* libprocesswd.so
+* libstartup.so
+* libstate.so
+* libtemperature.so
+* DSP stuff
+* tablet-browser
 == Opened ==
 * [https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3635 Alarm framework] is open source, but apparently the sources are lost/missing as explained in the bug.