[maemo-developers] How much are Nxxx open?

[From: Sarah Newman]

Nicola Mfb wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm new to this community and these nice Nokia devices, and I'd like
> to join/contribute/develop for it and buy the upcoming N900.
> Before proceeding further I'd like to know a bit about its "openess".
> Already googled but there are not much and coherent informations about
> that.

You can also get some idea by looking at the fremantle SDK release notes 
  as the closed source binaries are called out

http://maemo.org/development/sdks/maemo_5_beta_2_release_notes/

Though closed binary does not guarantee open sourced alternatives cannot 
be used.