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Trolltech GPLs Qtopia Phone Edition

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the all-the-cool-kids-are-doing-it dept.

Provataki writes "Trolltech has announced that they are releasing the new version of Qtopia Phone Edition under the GPL along with a port on the FIC Neo1973 smartphone. Trolltech also continues to support Greenphone as a reference platform for mobile development within the company and through its partners. Benoit Schillings, CTO of Trolltech (also of BeOS fame as one of the original Be, Inc. engineers) commented on the news."

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  1. GPLv2 by samkass · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those too lazy to go read the press release, it's GPLv2, not GPLv3.

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  2. Re:I'm curious... by richlv · · Score: 3, Informative

    hmm. actually, the device the article is about - Neo1973 - is pretty much open.
    http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973_Hardware

    few things are closed for quite valid reasons, but hopefully with time this will have a chance to improve.

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