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RE: [dsdp-pmc] Code contribution
Title: Code contribution
Hi,
 
The reason to try to bundle those binaries with MTJ is that if we don't, then MTJ cannot be used as such with Nokia terminals. You cannot deploy sw to terminal without those binaries.
 
Answers to your questions:
So everybody would use these if they ever plan to deploy to Nokia device.
Every developers can use those, but of course if they want to deploy to a phone they have to have a phone. With these libraries/binaries any Nokia phone will work.
They can get, but it is not straight forward and fully manual thing to do.
 
Other route is that developers should download those binaries separateley from Nokia (or in case an other vendor from somewhere else) and take them "out" from Nokia PC Suite and put them to right places etc. This is just quite an hassle for developers and we are thinking that if we could put those binaries (and hopefully we would get similar binaries from other terminal vendors also) to MTJ it would work kind of out of the box without developers to go and start to get missing pieces from here and there.
 
And this is planned feature of MTJ. Every device vendor can develop a plug-in to connect MTJ to their devices. Some vendors don't want to open up those interfaces so we have to have possibility to have drivers in both source and binary format so that we wouldn't exclude people/companies who don't have or don't want to provide interface spec/source code to access devices.
 
And just to highlight: Target is to really help developers using MTJ and there is no other Nokia benefit than MTJ would work with Nokia terminals.
 
Licensing: We most likely would have internal problem with those licenses. My unit is not producing those and we have had quite a long discussion to even get those binaries internally. I quess that EPL would be possible, but unfortunately it most likely would take something from half a year to year to do all internal Nokia stuff to get that done.
 
mho
 
 
From: dsdp-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dsdp-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ext Oberhuber, Martin
Sent: 27 September, 2006 11:19
To: DSDP PMC list
Subject: RE: [dsdp-pmc] Code contribution

Hello Mika,
 
What kind of users would you expect to use these binaries?
Can every ordinary user get such a Nokia terminal easily, and use it for programming?
Can ordinary users download these libraries from some Open Nokia server right now?
 
I'm wondering whether the Open Source Eclipse Framework is the right place for such vendor specific programs. In my understanding, the charter of the Eclipse foundation is to create Frameworks and Exemplary tools to support vendors creating their specific tooling.
 
As such, I'd rather not expect vendor specific binaries in Open Source. There is an exception, of course, if you think that these libraries would provide a very good example to show ISVs how the APIs can be used in order to extend the framework. Was that your intention?
 
Your license also talks about "Source Form". Would you include the sources for your libs with the contribution?
The license does read similar to the EPL. Do you see a chance that Nokia would proivde these libs under EPL?

Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm

 

From: dsdp-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dsdp-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of mika.hoikkala@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:51 AM
To: dsdp-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [dsdp-pmc] Code contribution

Hi,

I would like to get your vote to include two binaries to MTJ so that we can start due diligence process.

Those binaries are CONA.jar and COnnJNI.dll and they are used to connect MTJ to Nokia PC suite, which is needed in deploying applications to Nokia terminals.

I.e. without these binaries it is not possible to move application from Eclipse to a terminal.

Those binaries are owned by Nokia and copyright text is listed below.

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Copyright (c) 2005 - 2006, Nokia Corporation. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

    • Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
    • Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
    • Neither the name of the NOKIA nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE."

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Could you please make your vote.

mho

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