ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Jonas Drange <jonas.drange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13 April 2015 at 16:29, Johan Velthuizen <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Thought Ubuntu was opensource, but when we want to write software for
> this Ubuntu Phone we can't due security.
>
It is open source, but you can't write an *App* for the *App store* that
does this. You can submit patches against ofono/networkmanager and Ubuntu
System Settings, however.

How can we ever write useful software if we don't have access to the
> sources.
>
​As an app developer you have a lot of access through APIs in the SDK [1],
but no access to *everything*.​


​BR,
Jonas​


​[1] https://developer.ubuntu.com/api/qml/current/​;