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abill_uk	2010-04-10 , 12:01
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Originally Posted by Andre Klapper

http://wiki.maemo.org/Why_the_closed_packages lists a few things, also Stskeeps is working on listing openness on a per-package basis, see http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2010...-pr11-and.html

After reading your links i found an obvious way forward in the future development of maemo but Nokia would certainly land themselves in hot water if as a company it ceased to undergo and implement changes for the better but also tried to stop by not making open any source code needed for the future of its own creation !
then the route anyone would obviously take to start with will come under the open development/why the closed packages , ie:
Requesting the opening of closed components

If you want a Nokia closed component to be open, please see Open_development/Licensing_change_requests

The chances of success of your proposal will probably depend on how it fits within the following reasons for a relicensing:

1. Fixing a bug: The package is in non-free although it looks like it's actually an open piece of software. In this case forget about Brainstorm and simply file a bug and CC maemo.org distmaster on carsten.munk at gmail.com.
2. Nurturing application development: There is a strong argument proving that opening a component will bring more and better apps for end users.
3. Spread of Maemo driven technologies to other platforms: A component fits well in a gap existing in other Linux/OSS based projects and there is a concrete interest on collaborating and contributing to a component if it's opened.
4. Community maintenance: A component is receiving low attention from the official maintainers even if it has high attention from the community and there are developers volunteering to contribute to it if the source code is available.
5. Better architecture: Probably covered by 2 or 3 but just in case. A closed component is sitting in the midle of open components making things more difficult that needed to developers interested in that area.
indeed guys like yourself are very important to end user as a way forward with Nokia.
There is obviously some problem Nokia is not telling anyone so lets just wait and see what happens in the near future.
Andre please keep up the good work !!! very very usefull information in those links !!! THANKYOU.

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