Symbian OS makes early open source debut

The Symbian Foundation is to make available the Symbian OS for smartphones available under open source license.

The entire Symbian 3 platform, including the kernel, apps and other middleware, will be made available under the Eclipse Public License, as well as other open source licenses. This release comes some four months ahead of schedule.

Previously only the kernel itself was available.

There are some 330 million Symbian devices in circulation, manufactured by Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Fujitsu, and Sharp.

The code will be available on the Symbian Developer wikilater today.

It'll be interesting to see whether this helps to raise the profile of the Symbian platform.

Anyone here interested in Symbian?