The Openmoko Project is designed to deliver an open software stack on mobile platforms. The stack providers a full X server and is based on Linux. The stack uses the Linux kernel,... More

The Openmoko Project is designed to deliver an open software stack on mobile platforms. The stack providers a full X server and is based on Linux. The stack uses the Linux kernel, together with a graphical user environment built using the X.Org Server, GTK+ toolkit, and the Matchbox window manager. The stack also supports the Qt toolkit and Enlightenment 17. Openmoko is released under the GNU General Public License version 2. The native libraries are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Unlike most other mobile phone platforms, the phones based on the Openmoko stack are designed to provide end users with the ability to modify the operating system and software stack. By releasing the stack with Open Source licensing, Openmoko hopes to give "developers and users freedom from the "iron to the eyeballs," freedom to cosmetically customize their device or radically remix it; change the wallpaper or rebuild the entire house! It grants them the freedom, for example, to transform a phone into a medical device or point of sale device or the freedom to simply install their own favorite software." [http://www.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page] In addition, the project has also released its hardware design CAD files under the Creative Commons license, thereby giving industrial designers and hardware engineers the freedom similar to their software counterparts.  [edit]  Less