[MeeGo-dev] Open vs closed software (was Re: Handheld UX vs. Netbook UX)

[Quim Gil]

Hi,

ext Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Dnia środa, 24 lutego 2010 o 11:13:00 Quim Gil napisał(a):
> 
>> We will share the news as soon as we have a first MeeGo genuine
>> developer offering proposal (hopefully supported with real code and an
>> SDK preview).
> 
> Also please document how much components will be closed from beginning and 
> create some page with informations why.

MeeGo is not supposed to ship any closed components.
http://meego.com/about/licensing-policy


> So far Calendar was announced [1] to 
> be closed sourced and I expect that about half of first MeeGo/Nokia firmware 
> image will be not open (base system + framework will be rather open but thats 
> all).

Nokia closed apps are not MeeGo apps. If there is a MeeGo reference
calendar app it will be open source. All Nokia contributions to MeeGo
are open source. If you want to know more about Nokia proprietary
software the MeeGo project is not the place to get the answers.

-- 
Quim Gil
open source advocate
Maemo Devices @ Nokia