[maemo-developers] Open Sourcing software components responsible to calls and GSM/GPRS connections.

[From: Amit Sethi]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Sivan Greenberg <sivan at omniqueue.com>wrote:

> Dear lists,
>
>  I have an eager prospectus GSoC student, who happened to take same
> interest as mine in developing a sophisticated answering mechanism for the
> smartphones. At first we are targetting this at the N900 devices or the
> futuristic MeeGo devices, but I'm sure if parts of the rtcomm are open it
> could be migrated to Symbian as well, given the parts are similar in design
> at least.
>

Hi I wonder if this application really would require one to use rtcomm . One
could use phone
control methods available using dbus[1][2] .





>  How can we go about this? Or else, what would be the way to develop an
> application as he described without open sourcing the rtcomm parts?
>
>  Sukhbir, can you please follow up on this thread with a description or a
> link to a specification or a write-up of the idea?
>

As far as I understand all code written for gsoc has to be open ... and
shared with google
at the end of the project . However I do not see this as a problem . You can
  always use
API calls etc from a closed source project whats important that your own
code is open .
In this case I think dbus interface should be good enough to send and
recieve messages and calls.
All other stuff can be done using gstreamer etc ...

[1]:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/DBus/DBus_in_Freemantle
[2]: http://wiki.maemo.org/Phone_control


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