> On ven., 2010-02-19 at 11:21 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > Maybe Nokia could be convinced to open up some/most of the Maemo5 apps > > once Maemo6/Meego is out; AIUI, not opening up the UI apps was an > > initial decision that has been at least partly rethought internally > > since. > > See http://wiki.maemo.org/Open_development/Why_the_closed_packages and > http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/maemo.org/openness/pr1.1/
Good to have this information available. It is about what is free and what is not. My suggesion for this project is, let's start with re-packaging working system (including non-free components) into debian-compatible infrastructure (using "scripts that create debs" where we can't distribute debs due to all those licensing restrictions). Thus keep things working and full-functional from the beginning and through all process. Having system full-functional is IMO a very important point. That makes things different from most 'anti-vendor ports' projects out there. This should help to avoid Deblet's fate [1], and perhaps attract users, or at last make it possible to continue using device normally while working on this. [1] http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=536089 We may try to replace non-free modules by-the-way, when and where possible. Nikita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201002191530.43...@zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su