In the Symbian Foundation has released its first open-source software package, the first step in the organization’s plan to eventually open source the whole Symbian mobile operating system.

In the Symbian Foundation was established in June 2008 in Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, Samsung, LG, and AT & T to monitor developments in the Symbian OS as a platform for open source, licensed under the Eclipse Public Licence (EPL). Previously, the OS was designed as a proprietary software in the Symbian Foundation.

On Wednesday, Symbian presented its first package covered by the ELN, a system security package, in accordance with the Symbian Developer Craig Heath.

The Security Council OS source package is currently available in accordance with the EPA, and this is the first package, which must be formally transferred from the closed fund Symbian License (SFL) in … NAO, “Heath wrote in a blog.

Heath said the EPA will allow the security package to circumvent the rules of exports to Britain, where Symbian code law.

“There is an exception for software in the public domain, ‘which means that open source does not export controls, so its movement from the SFL in the EPL was the easiest way to make sure that full cryptographic functions will be accessible to all,” he wrote .

The measure also aims to show that Symbian is a “serious” about how open source software and security, according to Heath. The next step is to open source to Symbian kernel, as well as the basic set of components and drivers, according to Symbian’s chief architect Daniel Rubio.

“This should be accompanied by all other components and drivers to run a shell with full I / O - for example, the Council for supporting the package, the hardware and the car, of course, free toolchain,” Rubio said in a blog post. “The good news is that we make every effort to make this happen in the short term, which, in my opinion, this is a three-month horizon.”

Along with the transition to open source, Symbian is seeking to integrate multiple components of the old software on new operating system, which will be released under the name of Symbian ^ 2. The new operating system should be based on version 9 of Symbian OS and will integrate the S60, UIQ and MOAP user interfaces, according to Symbian. There are currently plans to start beta testing within the next few weeks, and may appear in phones in the first half of next year.

In March, Symbian said it plans to release a new version of the OS every six months, Symbian ^ 3 is scheduled for mid this year. Symbian competes with a variety of mobile operating systems, including Apple in the iPhone OS, the company Google Android, as well as Microsoft Windows Mobile.