The Symbian Foundation (The worlds most widely used smartphone platform) announced earlier today that they have released their entire 33 million lines of code as open source under the Eclipse Public License. When the project was launched in 2009 it was only Partly Open Source.
Now that all the third party intellectual property has been removed from the code they can now distribute it and anyone can download and use it free. This is a great step for Open Source. There are a couple features that had to be removed due to intellectual property. Those being T9 predictive text input and Handwriting recognition.
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