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2010-09-22 , 14:52
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
What components will remain closed? Since the ofono based solution seems to have helped out the NITDroid project. It seems the more hardware components that are open sourced then both Meego and NITDroid benefit from it.
The goal for 1.1 of closed stuff:

Redistributable (some only for non-commercial redistribution): (We have BME already, the remaining ones we still have some time to run on.)

OMAP3 SGX libraries, BME (battery charging), WiFi firmware, BT firmware.

And that's it.

For 1.2 we hope to add DSP stuff - Thoera codec, at least there. MP3 codecs and such may have to come from somewhere else than meego.com for licensing reasons.

Maybe some filters that help call quality, but this is a open area.

We really try to do the right thing. Some things in market doesn't move easily to open source (firmware, 3d acceleration), but frankly:

99% open source, 1% blobs - where the hardware works! vs 100% open source and it doesn't.. I can live with the 1% if I can redistribute it and make my own images.
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Last edited by Stskeeps; 2010-09-22 at 15:14.
 

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