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2009-11-02 , 12:44
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Originally Posted by fanoush View Post
What about something which is not exactly a package, is this relevant to this task too? Like undocumented data format (FIASCO image structure, config partition), communication protocol/interface etc.
Good point - I've mostly focused on software openness though. In Fremantle I've found that libcal, some communication protocols, etc, are L6, nokia-binaries. It's not perfect, but at least it allows people to write applications that utilize them.

My personal hope (from Mer perspective) is that we can move the interfaces (-dev) into at least L5, so people can make ABI compatible replacements for closed source things.
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