Last meeting of Symbian Coucil has info on Nokia's plans for Symbian and it's avaleability. http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/20...s_wrap-up_call Seems that Nokia is looking for roughly similar development & 'openess' model as what Google does with Android. Develop it in house and then dump the code somewhere.


Petra summarised Nokia's future plans re the Symbian platform:

The Symbian platform remains business critical to Nokia and their estimate of selling >50m S^3-based devices still holds

Nokia plan to develop the Symbian platform further

Nokia are looking at an alternate open and direct model for making the platform available to the community in future. The aim is that the model "will be no less open, free and flexible" than today's

Nokia do not intend to include a council-style governance system in their new model

No decision made as yet regarding whether EPL will be retained or an alternate license adopted. Petra indicated that terms will not be more restrictive than EPL.

Nokia intend to transition signing services (Symbian Signed) in some manner as they will still require it, details TBD

Nokia will communicate more detail regarding the new Symbian project by end Q1 2011 at the latest, via the standard Nokia corporate communication channels (press release, Nokia Conversations blog etc - details TBD)