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Originally Posted by Stskeeps View Post
Together with this 0.7 release we would like to ask the members of this forum a question, since we will be bringing Fremantle components to the N8x0(W), 770 devices. There are quite interesting discussions with Nokia going on about being able to provide community firmware images through maemo.org to Nokia tablet users, which could include closed source applications, drivers, etc. (see http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Community...e_distribution). Associated with that we have to provide a list of what packages/applications, bits and pieces of Diablo we would like to distribute as part of these images, for legal discussion.

We would then like to ask you users, what you would expect as part of these future firmware images, and to write why these ought to be part of the community firmware images - why are they important for you to have on your tablet.

Please restrict yourself to the closed source components as part of your answers. If you know of a proper open source replacement for a closed source component, you are welcome to write these as well so we can consider these for inclusion in the standard images. If they are OK to just to be downloadable through the Application Manager, note this as well.
First of all, thanks Stskeeps for all of your work on Mer and for the work of all of the people you mentioned. This is a wonderful thing you are doing for the community. I am not a SW guy, but I will try to provide input to help.

I suppose opening Flash and many other things are not at the discretion of Nokia. Hopefully, Nokia can open the few UI elements that are not already open. Referencing but hopefully not repeating the discussion, my main expectation is that a community platform would permit the HW keys on the legacy devices to be used to their full advantage. This includes not only the D-pad; I for one would expect the zoom +/- and fullscreen/switch view keys to continue to work and be available in the software stack. The reason is that it would make it easy for people to develop apps that take advantage of the legacy devices.

Second, this may be tangential but I hope from your Jaiku thread we can take solace that Mer will not use a CC NC or GPLv2 license for the base elements of the platform. The community will benefit if there can be full development of apps.
 

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