Well so far the parts from the Settings app have been missing so while it’s possible to reverse engineer this definitely makes it easier.
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I suppose having the component sources open might make things easier. But at least theoretically creating accounts was possible already before. We have some documentation available at Accounts and SSO | Sailfish OS Documentation, it probably makes sense to have a look at that before deep diving into the sources.
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Going by the internal issue numbers assigned to the freeing of the source, I think a few more relicensing commits are on the way. So far we have numbers ending in:
06-11, 14-15, 21
So I think it’s safe to assume at least the numbers in between are also regarding relicensing to BSD.
Let’s hope this is a new beginning for Sailfish OS. Either way, I wish everyone at Jolla the very best.
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Thanks! I was looking at integration of mastodon accounts, via Tooter. I think the authentication flow needs to be cleaned up first, though.
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And GitHub - sailfishos/sailfish-components-weather now. So if someone wants to implement a new backend besides Foreca. That’s now possible. Yeh \o/
Edit:
The full app becomed open source also: GitHub - sailfishos/sailfish-weather
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I’m kinda chuffed to get the DWD as a backend going. My app is still very WIP 
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Just before I forget it again, i also keep forgetting about MDM in SFOS … Apple has a virtual monopoly in education (highschool tablets) in Germany, for instance. All because of the effective MDM. I wonder if this is something a madman like me should do. Try to compete with apple in the education market ! (perhaps that last coffee was one too many).
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If you’re looking for mad people with to much coffee, this forum is the right place.
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The Ausschreibungen very often specifically define the tablets to be iPads; one would need to be prepared to do considerable (huge) amount of groundwork to get the municipalities to open such Ausschreibungen where any other devices can be offered.
I was thinking of suing the province of Brandenburg since I don’t believe the State has a right to prop up a monopoly (ha, ha, ha). Of course, my partner began beating me about the ears with pointy instruments and I put a cork in it. Then I determined to hack the tablet (which we don’t have yet since my son is still in 5th grade), and use it as a backdoor to take over the administration of the network. Then I took a chill pill.
As you say, it would be a huge effort. The problem is not just smoothly functioning MDM but all the apps in that space. On the other hand, I remember when apple had a monopoly in education in Canada / US in the late 1980s. They didn’t hold onto that. But 2000 everyone (not me) had written apple off. Till the ipod.
So, maybe there is a battle that can be won with sheer economic force. IF the MDM works as well as apples (big question) and one considers the Android layer, maybe it can be made so competitive that the municipalities had no choice if they didn’t want to have the Bundesrechnungshof breathing down their necks.
Ah, it’s probably a fantasy. But, it’s worth a discussion with some other parents with more knowledge of apps in use…
Newly opened repositories are hidden again.
they found the money so they don’t need to open them anymore 
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Is it even possible to ‘reclose’? AFAIK the ‘internet never forgets’.
Well, of course you can always close further development…
Someone who downloaded them at bsd can always publish their copy as bsd, jolla can relicense their code however they want if all contributors agree, but can’t retroactively cancel that (this is not a legal advice blah blah)
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Ouch, they have removed all of them… Let’s hope it’s a temporary situation due to some internal question raised on the relicensing. @throwaway69 is correct as far as I know, if all the copyright holders have given their agreement, the code that has been published can be redistributed under the new license even if the original piblisher removed it. Which make me think that some copyright holders have removed their agreement or didn’t give it at the start.
I’ve clones of some of the released repositories. If the issue is indeed an initial relicensing that didn’t gather all copyright holder agreements, then I cannot publish them. Otherwise, I guess Jolla themselves will republish them after the issue is sorted out. Hopefully : -/
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I’m pretty sure that it’s illegal to specify a compnies product in an Ausschreibung
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WTF does Jolla do here? Originally a very positive move, but just to be retracted a little later. Oh, this is so Jolla-ish, specifically the complete lack of communication WRT both steps, the forth and the back one. 
As far as i could see, all contributors were Jolla employees, presumably creating the content of these now-retracted repos during work. Consequently Jolla owns all rights and decides how to license this.
And no, nobody has to be asked or agree to using the content of these repositories, if someone cloned them while they were still online: The content was clearly marked as BSD-licensed.
AFAIK the ‘internet never forgets’.
Unfortunately, “the internet” per se does nothing: If nobody copied / cloned / archived the content during the brief period the stuff was accessible, it is not accessible any longer.
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