Open development/Why the closed packages

General reasons

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.

Specific reasons for packages

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:

  • 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

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