From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4522664416666388750==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: Palm Pre modem plugin Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:14:46 +0100 Message-ID: <1258964086.2993.20.camel@violet> In-Reply-To: <359c5480911220638u422e7c09scabfdeb175fd494f@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: To: ofono@ofono.org --===============4522664416666388750== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Nicola, > >>The forth and worring is that a developer may be forced to use > >>ofono, as the target device has some closed parts necessary for the os > >>that does not work anymore if you remove ofono and use FSO. > > > > Please do not post these crazy conspiracy theories here. oFono is GPLe= d for > > exactly this reason. > = > May you elaborate about that? May not a close source project use oFono > by calling it's DBus API? see my other email I wrote to explain it a little bit more. Yes, you can write an UI and keep it closed source. This is on purpose. However the D-Bus API is designed in a way that your UI is simple to begin with since we moved all the logic into the daemon. This is the big difference to the FSO GSM part. oFono does the heavy and complex work and all that is 100% GPL. Exactly how it should be. Regards Marcel --===============4522664416666388750==--