[SailfishDevel] Are Jolla core apps opensource ?

Joseph Crowell joseph.w.crowell at gmail.com
Sat Dec 28 22:33:55 UTC 2013


I would lean towards licensing of included libraries like xt9.

On 12/26/2013 06:35 PM, Tone Kastlunger wrote:
> Current closed source might have other reasons rather than salary;
> - competitive advantage?
> - API completeness?
> etc
> main point should be discussion on clarification on how, if and when 
> these closed sources will be made available.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 11:25 PM, a.grandi at gmail.com 
> <mailto:a.grandi at gmail.com> <a.grandi at gmail.com 
> <mailto:a.grandi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The two things are not related at all :)
>
>     Even "Linux", that is 100% opensource, has hundred of people paid
>     to contribute to it full time.
>
>     I know that the comparison is a bit unfair, but it's just to
>     explain that it can be normal to be paid to develop something that
>     is opensource.
>     Can Jolla afford to rely completely on the community? They can't,
>     at this stage. They pay employees to develop some apps. This
>     doesn't mean these apps can't be opensourced for this reason. So
>     probably there is a different reason that only Jolla can explain.
>
>     Cheers.
>
>
>     On 25 December 2013 22:17, Andrey Kozhevnikov
>     <coderusinbox at gmail.com <mailto:coderusinbox at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         I think there are persons in Jolla who receive a salary for
>         developing
>
>         because of that Jolla Core is not opensource (yet?)
>
>
>         On 26.12.2013 03:05, Vincent B. wrote:
>
>             I'm not sure about it, since I'm unable to find the
>             sources for Jolla
>             core apps such as the app clock. I'd like to add the
>             ability to select a
>             timer's duration at the second precision level.
>
>             Thanks in advance,
>
>             Vincent
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