Thread: [Petition] For Nokia to Open 100% of the Closed Components in Maemo 5/n900
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2010-06-07 , 18:27
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#49
Originally Posted by nosa101 View Post
Jesus Christ! Is it 100% open source as the OP suggested? No it isn't. There are closed parts and there are reasons for that.
This goes a bit off-topic, but it's still probably important to note.

The MeeGo project itself actually is (or should be, as far as I'm aware -- if it's not, you should probably raise it on meego-dev) fully open source.

People can take the core MeeGo distribution and put closed elements into it, as has been done for the partially closed N900 adaptation (to provide BME, accelerated graphics, etc) - but that is not the core distribution, that's an individual hardware adaptation.

(Also worth noting that there is a fully open adaptation for the n900 which doesn't include these closed components, but has reduced functionality as a result).

Stskeeps: if I'm wrong, please correct me on the above.
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