Symbian releases microkernel

Symbian releases microkernel

Posted Oct 25, 2009 17:28 UTC (Sun) by pboddie (guest, #50784)
In reply to: Symbian releases microkernel by deucalion
Parent article: Symbian releases microkernel

- allow independent as well as
- funded development while allowing both
- businesses to use the source in their products incorporating their own intellectual property as well as
- independent parties to use their source.

Even if you'd written that as a normal sentence, rather than as a "business-friendly" set of bullet-points, you could still plug the GPL into those criteria and get the green light. What you really mean, of course, is that the EPL allows people to redistribute the code without revealing their own sources and - an area dear to Symbian's heart, I'm sure - without agreeing to not sue various people over patents.

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