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Article: Symbian Rolls Out Microkernel and Development Kit Under Eclipse Public License.
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- Entertainment Close-up
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- October 27, 2009
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The Symbian Foundation announced part of its plan to move the entire Symbian platform into open source: the release of the platform microkernel (EKA2) and supporting development kit under the Eclipse Public License (EPL).
According to the company, the kernel release is nine months ahead of schedule and reflects the positive momentum behind Symbian's ambitious platform migration plan, which began with the release of security code under EPL.
16 out of a total 134 platform packages have now been released into open source since the code was first made available on the Symbian Foundation servers in April 2009.
"The release of the microkernel ...