[maemo-developers] Willing to Compile Maemo source

[From: Andre Klapper]

Hi Ibrahim,

Am Donnerstag, den 19.11.2009, 18:25 +0200 schrieb ibrahim:
>    3. I've heard that there are parts of Maemo closed source (made by
>       nokia) that I can't download and build . Can I have a
>       complete/running Maemo system without them (can compiling only the
>       open source components create a running system image) ?

Just to clarify: The complete source code is not available as Maemo is
not 100% open source but maybe 80% (according to Nokia).
For your interest, reasons for components not being open source are
listed here: http://wiki.maemo.org/Why_the_closed_packages

You will not get full functionality without these closed source parts.
Mer (http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer) might be an interesting alternative
here.

andre

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Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster)