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.