Samsung Electronics announced On the conclusion of a number of partnership agreements related to the licensing of the Tizen platform for other smart TV manufacturers. Agreements are concluded with Attmaca, HKC and Tempo, which this year will begin to produce their TVs with Tizen -based firmware under the brands of Bauhn, Linsar, Sunny and Vispera for sale in Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, Turkey and Britain.
Licensing allows not only the use of the open source texts of Tizen, but also to install a finished solution on their devices, including additional applications, tools for finding content and the original user interface. Samsung also expressed readiness for joint work on Tizen optimization for third -party equipment. The manufacturers have concluded access to services and content delivery technologies used in the Samsung Smart TV, such as the Samsung TV Plus stream broadcasting platform, the television program navigation system and the BIXBY vocal assistant.
Tizen supplies under the licenses of GPLV2, Apache 2.0 and BSD, and develops under the protection of Linux Foundation, mainly by the forces of the company Samsung. The platform continues to develop Meego and Limo projects and is distinguished by the possibility of using Web API and Web technologies (HTML5/JavaScript/CSS) to create mobile applications. The graphic environment is built on the basis of the Wayland Protocol and the developments of the Enlightenment project, Systemd is used to manage services.