Symbian moves mobile OS to open source

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Symbian moves its mobile OS to open source

Bernard Cole
iApplianceWeb
(02/04/10, 8:15 AM GMT)

San Francisco, Ca. – The Symbian Foundation has now completed the transfer of its Symbian mobile OS platform to open source status and is now available to developers for free.

Any individual or organization can now take, use and modify the code for any purpose, whether that be for a mobile device or for something else entirely. Symbian’s commitment to openness also includes complete transparency in future plans, including the publication of the platform roadmap and planned features up to and including 2011.

All 108 packages containing the source code of the Symbian platform can now be downloaded from Symbian’s developer web site, under the terms of the Eclipse Public License and other open source licenses.

Also available for download are the complete development kits for creating applications (the Symbian Developer Kit) and mobile devices (the Product Development Kit). These kits are compatible with Symbian 3, the very latest version of the platform, which is now fully open source and will be “feature complete” during Q1 of this year.

To download the open source platform, go to http://developer.symbian.org/ .

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