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Originally Posted by bsving View Post
MeeGo, for netbooks at least, is 100% open source. I have asked a direct question, and I got a direct answer to that question. The MeeGo team will not release any software that is not open source, no blobs allowed anywhere.

This would also mean that the MeeGo team will not release software for the N900 that is not 100% open source? I don't know if this really is the case, but it would be a natural assumption. The MeeGo team releases MeeGo, not Nokia. Therefore, the MeeGo on the N900 will never be in a usable state. To get it in a usable state will be "up to the community", as explained by Nokia.
Well, your information is wrong as Netbook actually comes with funny bits like Flash and Chrome..

The general policy in this area is simple: The MeeGo platform must not depend on closed binaries and must be open source. Images (as in the things you install to devices) can pull in closed bits from a non-oss repository. These licenses must be fair (no royalties, etc) and blobs must be redistributable. This means you can for example add codecs or 3d accelerator libraries, etc.

We do this in MeeGo for N900 for the following bits:

TI OMAP3 SGX drivers (3d acceleration)
BME (battery management) + libcal (access to CAL area)
WL1251 (wifi firmware) and bluetooth firmware
(and cos of a technical problem, Xorg driver as well. It's open source.)

And we try to keep our blobs to a minimum. They're a terrible bother to deal with.
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