Regarding Silica openness, its QML part is licensed under BSD if I’m not mistaken. But C++ part is proprietary. What about re-implement it with some open license? It would allow easy porting of SFOS apps to other mobile platforms or even running UI on x86_64 during development…
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Sadly, most of the more recent additions have either no copyright header or an explicit “License: Proprietary” notice. It seems these files were mostly modified by Open Mobile Platform and now that Jolla is severing ties with Russia, maybe they (Jolla) can rethink their stance…
That should be possible but its a massive and unnecessary amount of work - Jolla could simply decide to open it up. All the things people are patching now through Patchmanager could then be upstreamed.
Exactly, plus it would make Sailfish independent of Jolla’s financial situation. If they decide one day to discontinue Sailfish, or if they don’t have the money to continue, then all the community effort has been for nothing as all Sailfish apps can’t run anywhere else.
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Thank you @flypig for this article and for giving me the opportunity to talk about my work! 
I was thinking already about exporting search results, maybe I could expand that to make it more flexible. Regarding importing: you’re not the first to request this but I’m hesitant to implement something without a concrete use case. Did you think of re-importing exported data? Or importing from other file formats? Maybe even the notes app?
Does it show up in the Jolla Store for anyone? It was accepted but I don’t see it on my phone…
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It doesn’t show here either.
Also - I’m confused how I missed the Opal announcement by ichtyosaurus and now a community news made by flypig in June 15h… is this 2023? (Or am I replying to a last year thread)
Way to go, folks!
(now back to debugging my droidmedia:)
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I see it. Are you on old versions for some reason?
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It’s been available for a while. I see it on 4.5 devices, in any case. Could be that some include is 4.5 only. I noticed that with ‘Solver’. I think I used a Quick declaration that’s a bit new? 2.6?
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There was a remark from Jolla somewhere that these license remarks in files don’t matter that much, and that J own the rights to all of that regardless.
Probably something in the original licensing agreement between J and OMP.
But I can’t find the quote atm.
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Doesn’t show for me in the jolla store (4.5)
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Same here with XA2 3.4 and 10III 4.5. Visible in Storeman on both devices.
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Thank you as always for this great newsletter. It is always a nice read. Also big thank you to each contributor (jolla employee or opensource sailor). Great job.
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No, 4.5.0.19 64-bit on both Mi Note 10 and Zenfone 8.
I don’t see it on my official Xperia 10 32-bit either while searching for Laundry or in recent apps
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Thanks to everyone for checking the store! I think it might be an 32bit vs. 64bit issue: I’m using an Xperia X (32bit), @vlagged is on 32bit too, while @mSorvisto is on 64bit, right? That’s weird though, because I built it for all three architectures and I’m using that build on my phone.
No, latest 4.5…
IIRC, importing QtQuick 2.6 shouldn’t be an issue since SFOS 3.x.
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That would be nice, at least… There was also a remark from Jolla somewhere (don’t find it either right now) that BSD headers “don’t mean it’s BSD” - which isn’t how licensing works, I think. So let’s hope you’re right and hope that they change their minds :).
AFAIK XA2 is 32bit and 10III is 64bit.
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Just checked. Right you are. I still haven’t figured out what’s flagging my Solver as > 4.5 only. Works fine on 3.4 (from chum).
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Opal shows up in Jolla Store and Storeman (on Volla / 4.4.0.64).
Also the same on Xperia 10 / 4.5.0.19.
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Hmm, then it makes no sense…
Does anyone know if there is a way to contact the Harbour team?
Wrong. Some days I use too many devices. There are several reasons install won’t work on 3.4.
I think I may have a clue. Actually, @olf had a merge request that contained:
%define _binary_payload w2.xzdio
as an rpm macro to ensure that the rpm compression would work pre 4.4 that might also be an issue depending on the port?
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Opal is visible on both devices. Laundry list is not.
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