"Yesterday was a landmark that plenty of us have been working towards for nearly a decade. As MR and I have been indicating for a while now, the remaining obstacles to a fully compatible and Free implementation of Java SE have all been removed by efforts like renegotiating the terms for the source of Java 2D and various community members (Sun and others) re-implementing some of the other code."
http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/free_compatible_java_at_last
It is indeed a great great day for the Free Software community and a great example of the rewards for standing up for our values. Kudos to all who worked behind this milestone.
Next is flash -> www.getgnash.org
Cheers Praveen
On 6/23/08, Praveen A pravi.a@gmail.com wrote:
"Yesterday was a landmark that plenty of us have been working towards
And should be Symbian...
"Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:20 PM PDT
Symbian's decision to make its source code freely available tips the scales in favor of open-source software in smartphones and could make it harder for Microsoft, and even other open-source platforms like Google's Android and Linux, to compete...."
Complete story at http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147521/symbian_shifts_mobile_w... CK Raju
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2008, CK Raju, Thrissur wrote:
"Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:20 PM PDT
Symbian's decision to make its source code freely available tips the scales in favor of open-source software in smartphones and could make it harder for Microsoft, and even other open-source platforms like Google's Android and Linux, to compete...."
Complete story at http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147521/symbian_shifts_m obile_world_to_open_source.html CK Raju
The story goes on to say:
``They will offer it under a royalty-free license to members of a new nonprofit group called the Symbian Foundation.''
Does that mean sharing of source is limited to members of the Foundation? How about independent developers and individuals, can we get and use the source or not?
I'll take the announcement with a pinch of salt until the licensing terms of the ``open'' Symbian OS are clarified.
Regards,
-- Raju
"Contributions from Foundation members through open collaboration will be integrated to further enhance the platform. The Foundation will make selected components available as open source at launch. It will then work to establish the most complete mobile software offering available in open source. This will be made available over the next two years and is intended to be released under Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0." ..http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2008/pr200810018.html
And the license is at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html CK Raju
On 6/25/08, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org wrote:
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2008, CK Raju, Thrissur wrote:
"Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:20 PM PDT
Symbian's decision to make its source code freely available tips the scales in favor of open-source software in smartphones and could make it harder for Microsoft, and even other open-source platforms like Google's Android and Linux, to compete...."
Complete story at http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147521/symbian_shifts_m obile_world_to_open_source.html CK Raju
The story goes on to say:
``They will offer it under a royalty-free license to members of a new nonprofit group called the Symbian Foundation.''
Does that mean sharing of source is limited to members of the Foundation? How about independent developers and individuals, can we get and use the source or not?
I'll take the announcement with a pinch of salt until the licensing terms of the ``open'' Symbian OS are clarified.
Regards,
-- Raju
Raj Mathur raju@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list Fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends
EPL 1.0 is a free software license, but GNU GPL incompatible. -- Anand Babu Periasamy GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 Blog [http://ab.freeshell.org] The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org] Z RESEARCH Inc [http://www.zresearch.com]
CK Raju, Thrissur wrote:
"Contributions from Foundation members through open collaboration will be integrated to further enhance the platform. The Foundation will make selected components available as open source at launch. It will then work to establish the most complete mobile software offering available in open source. This will be made available over the next two years and is intended to be released under Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0." ..http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2008/pr200810018.html
And the license is at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html CK Raju
On 6/25/08, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org wrote:
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2008, CK Raju, Thrissur wrote:
"Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:20 PM PDT
Symbian's decision to make its source code freely available tips the scales in favor of open-source software in smartphones and could make it harder for Microsoft, and even other open-source platforms like Google's Android and Linux, to compete...."
Complete story at http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147521/symbian_shifts_m obile_world_to_open_source.html CK Raju
The story goes on to say:
``They will offer it under a royalty-free license to members of a new nonprofit group called the Symbian Foundation.''
Does that mean sharing of source is limited to members of the Foundation? How about independent developers and individuals, can we get and use the source or not?
I'll take the announcement with a pinch of salt until the licensing terms of the ``open'' Symbian OS are clarified.
Regards,
-- Raju
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"If you can get 90 percent of the desired effect for 10 percent of the work, use the simpler solution." http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/introduction-archgui...
I find it hard to disagree with this.
Contributions are going to remain afloat with EPL 1.0 too...
CK Raju
On 6/25/08, Anand Babu Periasamy ab@gnu.org.in wrote:
EPL 1.0 is a free software license, but GNU GPL incompatible.
Anand Babu Periasamy GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 Blog [http://ab.freeshell.org] The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org] Z RESEARCH Inc [http://www.zresearch.com]
CK Raju, Thrissur wrote:
"Contributions from Foundation members through open collaboration will be integrated to further enhance the platform. The Foundation will make selected components available as open source at launch. It will then work to establish the most complete mobile software offering available in open source. This will be made available over the next two years and is intended to be released under Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0." ..http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2008/pr200810018.html
And the license is at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html CK Raju
On 6/25/08, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org wrote:
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2008, CK Raju, Thrissur wrote:
"Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:20 PM PDT
Symbian's decision to make its source code freely available tips the scales in favor of open-source software in smartphones and could make it harder for Microsoft, and even other open-source platforms like Google's Android and Linux, to compete...."
Complete story at http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147521/symbian_shifts_m obile_world_to_open_source.html CK Raju
The story goes on to say:
``They will offer it under a royalty-free license to members of a new nonprofit group called the Symbian Foundation.''
Does that mean sharing of source is limited to members of the Foundation? How about independent developers and individuals, can we get and use the source or not?
I'll take the announcement with a pinch of salt until the licensing terms of the ``open'' Symbian OS are clarified.
Regards,
-- Raju
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