The entire Symbian platform is now available under the terms of the open source Eclipse Public License.
This is fantastic news, and I’m excited about what it means for the future of the package and the Symbian platform. Next week I will write about how you can get started with the persistentdata code and suggest some activities you can help us with.
You can find more information in yesterday’s announcement on the Symbian blog and the official press release.
Open sourcing the Symbian platform is a major achievement. It was reported in the mainstream and technical press. Several examples below:
- Symbian phone operating system goes open source
- Symbian makes its smartphone software open source
- Symbian Operating System, Now Open Source and Free
- Symbian shares the source
- New, Open Symbian Looks Beyond Smartphones
- Symbian goes open source four months early
- World’s biggest mobile OS opens up to take on Google
- Symbian Foundation completes move to open source
- Symbian now fully open source
- Symbian Completes Transition To Open Source
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