[maemo-developers] DSME code?

[From: Dave Neuer]

On 9/14/07, Daniel Stone <daniel.stone at nokia.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:15:52AM -0400, ext Dave Neuer wrote:
> > If you still have it cached, and could describe how it works to
> > someone who hasn't seen it, it would be an opportunity for the
> > community to work on a replacement.
>
> The D-Bus API is a very good start: have you considered looking at that?
> I don't see anything stopping anyone from starting work on DSME, now,
> commits or no (you really don't want questions about the legitimacy of
> your code).

Questions about legitimacy aren't a problem as long as the answer is
"it's legitimate." I'm not aware of any jurisdictions where it is
illegal for me to write software based on a description of what some
other software does (i.e., "clean-room" reverse-engineering), or for
someone to describe software they've seen the code to. Obviously
anyone considering doing either of those things should check for
themselves whether it is legal in their jurisdiction.

Of course, I completely agree that the actual code that was at the
site cannot, and _should_ not, be redistributed without Nokia's
permission.

But honestly, just as I'm sure it's tiresome for Nokia employees to
hear me constantly harp on the closed nature of the IT OS, it's
tiresome for me to hear well-intentioned Nokia employees such as
yourself and Igor insist I should just look at D-Bus or hints dropped
on mailing lists and guess what closed Nokia software does.

Dave