Re: [Opl-dev-development] ER5 source

[David M. <dav...@sy...>]

Keita,

It is an open source project, so if you and others are keen to backport the code to 
Symbian OS v5 feel free to do it. I am not convinced that's the most efficient use of 
resources and hence think it is not a very good idea, but you don't need my blessing! 
As for support, it should come from all involved in opl-dev. My role in making opl-dev 
happen was mainly in building a case for it to get Symbian's management to approve it 
and convincing our legal department to adopt LGPL for this project (and dealing with 
part of the infrastructure such as setting up the SourceForge project), ie I haven't 
contributed any code to the project so couldn't support you on development issues.

br -d

On 4 Aug 2003 at 21:24, ktk...@hi... wrote:

> Hi David,
> 
> Thank you very much for your reply.
> 
> > Yes, we would need to check/rebuild/fix/test.
> 
> OK you would want to do that, and I don't have any 
> reason to argue against that. 
> I'm only grateful to you Symbian to release the OPL
> code for ER6, which should have costed you considerable
> time, money and human resources. You've made a brave
> and tough decision which I think is REALLY benefitical
> to users and developers alike.
> 
> Probably the only reasonable approach that would attract
> more ER5 guys to the codebase of OPL is  to backport 
> everything to ER5.
> 
> And I guess it is most desirable for Symbian if  this
> backporting is done as an independent user-side project
> to minimize the support issue (i.e. the product should 
> never, under any circumstances, be confused as the 
> "official" product from Symbian).
> 
> I'm not too sure if I'll have time in the near future,
> but if I will I'd like to start.
> If that ever happens (let's be wishful), can I expect 
> any support from you, or do you think it's plainly a
> bad idea?
> 
> Best wishes,
> Keita


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