Announced the creation of a Mobile Linux Foundation

The initiative of several major cellular market players, announced for the first time in mid-June, acquired completed forms on Thursday. Six companies - Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone - officially announced the creation of the Mobile Linux joint fund, which will in every way contribute to the development of a single Linux platform for mobile phones and promote it as an industry standard.

Each member of the new alliance plays a significant role in the telecommunications sector and by its mere participation in it gives the organization a serious weight. The Foundation, whose name is already routinely reduced to LiMo, calls its goal to create "the world's first globally competitive Linux-based software platform for mobile devices."

LiMo will release OS specifications with basic functionality, with links to all the open source used, compatibility guidelines for third-party software, and test packages that will help them align their products with the specifications. After passing the special certification, developers will also be able to proudly decorate them with the Foundation's logo.
')
The API will be available to everyone absolutely free of charge under a special license of the Foundation Public License - everyone can get the core and middle-ware under the same conditions as in a regular GPL, but distribution of the code will be allowed only to LiMo members. In addition, the FPL structure will facilitate the mutual licensing of proprietary technologies between Fund participants.

In addition to the founders, Mobile Linux will be able to take part and partners at the levels of the main and associate members of the community: for a certain cash contribution, they will receive rights, in the first case, to access, modify and commercially distribute products based on the code developed by LiMo or case, only access and modification code.

Thus, the Foundation will become an interesting experiment in mixing models of joint open and closed development of a software platform, which, however, has yet to show its success.