Symbian is not open source software Open only for businesses

April 7th news, according to foreign media reports, Nokia confirmed that it has closed the source code of the Symbian smartphone operating system.

Nokia said that although it interprets the new model of Saipan's smartphone operating system development as "open and direct" (open and direct), that opening does not mean "open source software". It means “open to the business”. This open and direct model is designed to continue to work with the remaining Japanese OEMs and the smaller platform development collaborator community that has been working together.

Nokia last week in an article entitled "We are open!" in the article announcing that the Saipan code will be re-released on the web. The news was announced by Petra Soderling, head of open source software at Nokia's Saipan smartphone division. Legal blog Groklaw reviewed the license and announced that it is not open source. OSI board member Simon · Simon Phipps said in a blog post that Nokia pretends to have no problems. I really hope that Nokia will solve this problem as soon as possible. Nokia has now solved this problem and confirmed that it has turned this source code into a closed license.

For those who are looking for Saipan source code under the open source software license, the archived data for the sourceforge portion of the symbiandump.sf.net website contains the code and resources that the Saipan Foundation released before it was closed. The Google Code website also stores other Saipan Foundation incubators.
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