More sourcecode will be released

asked 2017-02-09 17:16:34 +0200

hoschi gravatar image

Hello!

According this blog post more of SailfishOS will become open-source, as said years ago.

Previously we’ve also mentioned that we’re working on the further open sourcing of Sailfish OS. We have now taken the necessary steps and preparations to enable us to further open source Sailfish code, in particular in the areas of apps and UI. We have a decision process ongoing but you should expect exciting news on this during upcoming months.

This are good news! Can you you tell us, what sourcecode still cannot released and why? These are, of course, the closed-source drives (which are anyway part of the actual build for a device) and the Android-Runtime (I don't care). Background for non techies:

  • you can use it as you wish
  • you and studiy and modify it as you wish
  • you can redistribute it
  • you can redistribute modified copies

Only if you have this four freedoms you can trust into the software on yourself, or - in most cases, what others say about the source. And as developer and users you have a much more stable foundation to built up and invest time and money, because SailfishOS can be used even if Jolla can't care about it anymore.

Personally I stronly hesistate to code for a closed or partially closed-platform, to much risk to loose my work and time ;)

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Not an answer, but interesting list of OSS and non-OSS packages used in Sailfish OS: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/SailfishOSS

molan ( 2017-02-09 17:28:46 +0200 )edit
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for example you should not expect Store and it's parts to be opensourced at all :)

coderus ( 2017-02-09 18:06:20 +0200 )edit
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@coderus: Your right about the store. But probably even a store could implemented in an appropriate way without storing secret credentials inside the text-segment (source) or locally?

hoschi ( 2017-02-09 18:26:17 +0200 )edit

Hi. More than half a year has passed since the blog post. Are there any updates in opening more of Sailfish, particularly UI and applications?

steils ( 2017-09-18 17:35:59 +0200 )edit