[maemo-developers] Double checking free/nonfree packages

[From: Quim Gil]

ext Christopher Allan Webber wrote:

> Funambol SyncML
> ---------------
> 
> Claims "Funambol is the leading mobile open source project and leading
> provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email for billions
> of phones."
> 
> https://www.forge.funambol.org/DomainHome.html
> 
> If it's "open source", is it really nonfree then?
> 
> Appears to be under the AGPL?
> https://core.forge.funambol.org/source/browse/core/trunk/LICENSE.txt?revision=28308&view=markup

Dual licensing. In short, the Maemo team went for the commercial license
to avoid legal risks linking open/closed components.


> xml2wbxml
> ---------
> 
> Appears to be linked to the wbxmllib project, which is under the gpl?
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/wbxmllib/develop

No, it's an own implementation of the WBXML specification.

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Quim Gil
open source advocate
Maemo Devices @ Nokia