What are Jolla’s plans on re-releasing the ca. 15 Open Source Software components at GitHub, which had been released by Jolla between September and October 2023?
Jolla retracted them all by the end of October 2023, and did not react to any further inquiries on their future.
Hence I asked about half a year later at the “IRC community meeting 2024-02-29”, but the reply was rather vague and unspecific: “You’ll hear about this. At the end you likely (should) see more components available.”
Well, I have not heard anything about this meanwhile, and as a first step I would be glad if Jolla simply re-releases the OSS components it once already did release, again. More than a year has passed since these repositories were originally released, their content and licensing were not at all unusual (minor components, mostly BSD-licensed), hence I am asking what the specific reasons are which prevent a re-release?
This is a crucial point (and has been since Jolla’s insurrection): Does Jolla define themselves as an OSS-company or as a proprietary software company which utilises OSS?
I still do expect a “open source promise” from Jolla (i.e. now, Jollyboys), which clearly states that all their own, SailfishOS-related software assets will be open-source-licensed in the moment they become bankrupt and that Jolla will continuously work towards this goal (regardless of their finances). Otherwise co-developing SailfishOS and its ecosystem makes little sense.