[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] RFC: Qtopia Nokia N770 (maemo) porting layer

[From: Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

Hi Holger,
If you are going to base this on Qt2 how could it be LGPL/BSD licensed?
If you are do to a LGPL/BSD licensed version of Qtopia you need to do it
from scratch not using TrollTech's code at all. Also if the goal is to
make it a porting layer you should in other words try to implement the
Qt API as a binding for GTK+. I know where where a couple of small
attempts at doing that starting with the old Harmony codebase (after the
main Harmony project had derailed), but none ever went anywhere.

Christian 

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 22:17 +0100, Holger Freyther wrote:
> Hi Pals, Nokia,
> 
> I would be intersted in leading the development of a LGPL/BSD licensed
> porting layer of the Qtopia platform for the maemo platform.
> 
> Why such a layer is good:
> 	-Existing applications can be utilized for Maemo by easily migrating
> 	 them to use osso/hildon technology
> 	-More applications will make hildon/osso more attractive
> 	-Give developers the choiche to target any platform easily
> 	-Maemo is a great piece of Free Software and should be supported
> 
> How such a port would look like:
> 	-We would use Qt2/X11 and make it look like the maemo gui
> 	-We would implement libqpe,libqtopia, libqtopia1, libqtopiapim
>            using osso, hildon and Qt2
> 	-In the future we should use Qt4 but that would require more porting
>           of the applications.
> 
> What we need:
> 	-Legal counseling if we can do a clean room implementations and
>           how it should look like.
> 	-Sponsors:
> 		-People Donating Time to this project
> 		-People/Companies Donating Money to this project allowing
> 		people to work on it during office hours (not for myself though)
> 		-People writing tests and setting up a QA infrastructure
> 		-People Testing our Work
> 		-People porting/verifying application work
> 		-People enjoying using maemo
> 
> How should we proceed:
> 	-We should gather enough people to start this project
> 	-We should have enough information to start the clean room
>           implementation.
> 	-We should quantify which classes are mostly needed to port
>           most of the apps.
> 
> 
> if you are interested please email me
> 
> 	regards holger
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