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Originally Posted by =X=
This is interesting news. If played right this could be just the thing that will jolt webOS.
I guess the question I have is what license will HP go with, the article never says what license they are going with. If it's open source with HP controlling all the rights I don't think developers will have much interest.
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I do not know the exact details about the licensing mode, but this is my understanding of the situation and how it will be handled.
There will be a committee of about 6 persons (or something like that), mostly outside developers. One or two , HP employees. That way, changes will be someway regulated, avoiding a similar situation that we are having now with Linux and so any distros. This will ensure that will remain open source but without being a chaos and any kid of teenager doing changes and re-releasing as webOs, which makes difficult hardware and driver compatibility.
Sounds good in theory but like you said, let's see what real developers think about the situation.
The other important point is that not the whole webOs code is HP property only. I believe they are some portions licensed to Oracle and Microsoft. We will have to generate open source equivalent for those.