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Developers Go Mobile: Opie Releases Free SDK
An anonymous reader writes "The Open Palmtop Integrated Environment (Opie) project to develop a free graphical application environment for Linux handhelds and webpads has released a software development kit (SDK) based on the KDevelop3 open source IDE. The Opie SDK provides tools for developing open, professional-class applications for Linux based mobile and embedded devices running under the Opie platform, according to Opie hacker Oliver 'Groucho' Fels. In case you're wondering, Opie is a fork of Trolltech's Qtopia, a palmtop application stack popularized by Sharp's Zaurus line and other PDAs and handhelds. Opie features a sophisticated personal information (PIM) framework as well as several other productivity apps, extended multimedia capabilities and document model, networking and communication tools, and support for more than a dozen languages."
Of course not. It's based on Qt which is licensed under GPL/QPL.
Opie/Qtopia are useful several different enviornments. Most notably for "rescue" systems. For example in Ark Linux, if you mess up your XServer and it cant start up again, runs a Qtopia app to help you recover. Also for its installer.
I personally have written an mplayer front end for my own home made settop box because I didn't want all the burden of X for just one app! So try them today, it may just be the "X replacement" that people are looking for!
Nero-burning ROM for Linux!
... and hence the fork is licensed purely under the GPL, since the QPL is a commercial license and does not permit forks.