Nokia SDK incomplete source code

Roberto Gordo Saez roberto.gordo at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 01:01:46 CEST 2008


On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 07:37:43PM +0200, paolo del bene wrote:
> i received your e-mail about nokia 810, what really happened ? and why
> it does not distribute a copy of GNU/linux ? they say that is
> possibile to request a copy but really is not so, people that work
> inside nothing know that a copy of GNU/linux must to stay in the box,
> there is written only on the guide of nokia.
[...]

Hi. In general terms the SDK provided by Nokia is OK. My
complain is for a very concrete case, just one library (libesd)
that can't be compiled because of some header files kept
proprietary and secret.

AFAIK sources for everything else (kernel, libraries) are
included, distributed by Nokia and look perfectly good. Unless
you want to modify that concrete library, you problably won't
notice those missing files and you could use the SDK normally,
so don't be alarmed, it's not so bad.




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