Bug 11128 – Opening the source for Sharing services framework

Bug 11128 - Opening the source for Sharing services framework


Summary:	Opening the source for Sharing services framework

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	Licensing Change Requests
Component:	General
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	All Maemo

Importance:	Unspecified normal with 8 votes (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Quim Gil
QA Contact:	licensing-requests

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Reported:	2010-08-13 15:00 UTC by Gary Birkett
Modified:	2011-04-20 17:33 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Gary Birkett (reporter) 2010-08-13 15:00:09 UTC

I'm requesting that the source to the Sharing services framework be opened, as
it would help community projects like fmms and monorail which each wish to
expand on the current set of options to allow new sharing experiences and help
people to connect.

Currently there is no mechanism to "Share via MMS" or "Share via IM" without
going to some extreme hackery (see Albans excellent blog) and would really like
to expand the utility in a clean customisable way.

http://alban.apinc.org/blog/2010/07/30/send-files-to-your-contacts-on-your-n900/


the sections from the openness report which would be required are:

http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/maemo.org/openness/pr1.1/Applications/Sharing/L6.html
http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/maemo.org/openness/pr1.1/Applications/Sharing/L6.html

libsharing
sharing-dialog
sharing-services-default

sharing-account-manager
sharing-manager
sharing-rtcom

these components are all currently closed source and would greatly benefit from
being opened.

Comment 1 Gary Birkett (reporter) 2010-08-13 15:04:05 UTC

damn, copy paste error, the second openness link would be:

http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/maemo.org/openness/pr1.1/Applications/Sharing/L7.html

Comment 2 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2010-08-13 15:16:07 UTC

On a related note also see
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=784443&postcount=32 . If this framework
will still be around in MeeGo terms the chances are way higher I'd say (as an
outsider).

Comment 3 Gary Birkett (reporter) 2010-08-13 15:32:04 UTC

there is a semi related internal bug about this on the internal tracker.

NB#165497 -  Feature request: Share a file with Telepathy file transfer 

this was filed a while ago and was implemented as open source by the
workarounds described by Alban.
It would be nice to not have to file bugs like this if we can get the framework
opened.
(filed here mostly for completeness)

Comment 4 Alban Crequy 2010-08-13 15:46:13 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 5 Quim Gil nokia

2010-08-27 20:47:03 UTC

Hi, first of all let me check with the Sharing Framework owners whether they
have got any discussion about re-licensing in the past, and what are the plans
for Harmattan/MeeGo.

Comment 6 Pali Rohár 2011-02-26 22:46:41 UTC

Is there any chance to re-licensing?

Comment 7 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2011-02-27 21:14:22 UTC

See http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=784443&postcount=32

Comment 8 Quim Gil nokia

2011-02-28 07:41:32 UTC

This week I plan to discuss with Mika Leppinen what to do with the Maemo 5
licensing change requests. I will update here as soon as I know something.

Comment 9 Pali Rohár 2011-03-28 11:13:54 UTC

Do you know something new about licensing change requests?

Comment 10 Quim Gil nokia

2011-04-20 17:30:22 UTC

Sorry for not answering before to this request.

Nokia contributed to the MeeGo project
http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-sharing-framework months ago. This is not the
same codebase used in Maemo 5 but this is the codebase Nokia is working on now
and proposing for future developments.

I don't expect any relicensing of the Sharing Framework for Maemo 5. You can
decide the most appropriate resolution for this request, fixed or wontfix
depending on how you look at it...

Comment 11 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2011-04-20 17:33:46 UTC

WONTFIX as per last comment.