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Symbian releases open sauce package
SYMBIAN HAS RELEASED its first open sauce software package. The move is seen as the first step towards open sourcing the entire Symbian mobile operating system.
The Symbian Foundation is a collective set up by Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, Samsung, LG, and AT&T.
Writing in his bog, Symbian developer Craig Heath said that the OS Security Package source code is now available under the Eclipse Public Licence (EPL). It is the very first package to officially be moved to the EPL from the closed Symbian Foundation License (SFL).
Heath said that the EPL allows the security package to bypass export regulations in the UK where the Symbian Foundation is legally based.
In the UK software world, code that's 'in the public domain' is not export controlled, so moving the security package from the SFL to the EPL was the most straightforward way to make sure that its complete cryptographic functionality will be available to all, he said.
The next step will probably be to open source the Symbian kernel, along with a basic set of components and drivers. That's about three months away, apparently.
Symbian has said it plans to release a new version of the OS approximately every six months. µ
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I'm affraid that over here at the INQ; the stuff you compile has always been 'sauce'?
You're obviously newbies?
This is what gives the INQ that rather nice, but very strange and likeable flavo(u)r...
Read it more often, you won't regret it!
Love,
Dave xxx
If the sauce is open, should it be kept refrigerated and consumed by a "consume-by date" ? Or does it contain preservatives?
Who knew that Symbian would now come in a tomato flavour?
Looks like some of the major phone makers are moving away from Symbian. Look how Sony Ericsson now runs Windows in X1 instead of the their usual Symbian OS. X1 marks the future direction that SE is headed.
Symbian, I really hated developing software on that platform.
Symbian was a nice but not great OS, incredibly it's still buggy as hell after all these years and to cap it all it gets saddled with really shit user interfaces from the likes of Nokia and SE.
With SE having made the smart choice to offload Symbian and now about to launch an Android device, what future is there for Symbian other than on the bargain basement low-functionality phones that Nokia sell by the million, but which nobody cares about?
Symbian (and Nokia) lost the high end about 3 years ago, and will never get it back. Period.
Symbian Foundation is on life support, somebody pull the plug.
This is just very little and extremely late.