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HP plans to make WebOS open source by September

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Hewlett-Packard, which announced last month that it would make its WebOS available to the open-source community, said Wednesday that the platform’s full source code would be released to the public by September and gave a timeline for when it would release individual elements.

On Wednesday, the Palo Alto tech company released version 2.0 of WebOS’s developer tool, Enyo, ‘giving the open-source community immediate access’ to the application framework for WebOS.

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Enyo 2.0 enables developers to write a single application that works across mobile devices and desktop Web browsers from the WebOS, iOS and Android platforms to Internet Explorer and Firefox.

‘This is a decisive step toward meeting our goal of accelerating the platform’s development and ensuring that its benefits will be delivered to the entire ecosystem of Web applications,’ Bill Veghte, HP’s executive vice president and chief strategy officer, said in a statement.

The WebOS code will be made available under the Apache License, Version 2.0, beginning with the source code for Enyo.

Other individual elements of the WebOS source code, such as core applications like mail and calendar as well as its Linux kernel, will be made available until the full code base is contributed to the open-source community in the fall, HP said.

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