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Royalties for free software?Royalties for free software?Posted Jun 26, 2008 21:25 UTC (Thu) by fredrik (subscriber, #232)In reply to: Royalties for free software? by osma Parent article: Symbian to be another open mobile platform
Another possibility is that the Symbian Foundation membership gives you voting rights in some form of ruling board the foundation will establish. I'd imagine that even though it is open source, a such a huge and complex code base will be maintained by a cathedral - mainly in the form of nokia employees - taking development directions from the foundation. At least for the nearest couple of years. As far as I have understood the EPL, it contains a patent retailiation clause, and requires that you license patents for the code you release under it. So I do not believe the membership fee has anything to do with patent licensing.
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Royalties for free software? Posted Jun 28, 2008 9:10 UTC (Sat) by henning (subscriber, #13406) [Link] Take a look at the symbian foundation whitepaper PDF (p6), the anual membership fee will buy you some voting rights and also the possibility to distribute the code commercially. This will be probably not possible as part of the free developer program.
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