The Symbian Foundation has finally released some open source code after much waiting and this could be the start of something good in the future- “Today we have reached a significant milestone for us Symbian security people, and for the Symbian Platform in general. The OS Security package source code is now available under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) and it is the very first package to be officially moved from the closed Symbian Foundation License (SFL) to be open sourced under the EPL.

I want to publicly thank everyone who pulled out the stops to make this happen, particularly Santosh Patil and William Roberts who did most of the heavy lifting, but also many others who were involved in the approval process inside and outside Symbian.

Why was this package the first to go through this process? There was a practical reason and a symbolic reason…”