So far, the Symbian Foundation has not produced any opensource code due to legal reasons – this has now changed. The statement below is from the Symbian Foundation blog:
Today we have reached a significant milestone for us Symbian security people, and for the Symbian Platform in general. The OS Security package source code is now available under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) and it is the very first package to be officially moved from the closed Symbian Foundation License (SFL) to be open sourced under the EPL.
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The next thing is said to be the kernel:
Now that we are wiser on the matter the big question is ‘what is the next package to go TRUE open source?‘ While Security is a very relevant package, we need to target something that will trigger discussions, represent Symbian at the heart, fuel development, overload the forums, engage the non-believer and most of all start putting us on equal fighting terms with other available open source platforms… no doubts, it has to be the Symbian Kernel. But it should not just show up in the OSS section of the mercurial repositories, no, it has to be accompanied by a all other components and drivers to run a shell with full I/O, i.e. a Board Support Package, a HW vehicle and of course a freely available toolchain.
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