There are many different types of OS licenses. I would assume it has been determined that the applicable license(s) does not require online availability or that the legal risk is negligible. But it's a minimal cost and no doubt some Symbian developers are regretting that they were swayed by the professed "commitment" to open source Symbian.

That's not the point any way. And Symbian will not "remain" open source, as future developments will be under some other license. Most people here, including me, don't regard periodically throwing code over the wall as open.

I don't want to dissect Symbian dissolution here. I just want to point out the learning moment for maemo.org and other OSS based communities.