Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

27 sep 2007 kl. 16.00 skrev Luis Villa:

Hi,

> > > It is of course their call. And likewise it is the GNOME community's
> > > call not to accept libraries licensed as such.
> > >
> > > We have a very longstanding and very deliberate policy to license  
> > > our
> > > libraries LGPL, and it has served us well. This is not the time to
> > > change it, *especially* since we want these libraries to be deeply
> > > embedded into all of GNOME, not just some applications.
> >
> > I'm a bit unsure about how useful libempathy-gtk would be for third
> > party applications? Do we have any use cases for this as a library.
> >  From the way I suggested at the time of the fork was to make Empathy
> > run on top of Telepathy and create the required applications for
> > integrating with mission control etc. This doesn't require an
> > external library though.
> >
> > For example I can't see the chat dialog widgets to be all that useful
> > to other applications as they should preferably message Empathy to
> > show a chat dialog for a specific user. The same with most of the
> > other widgets, roster widget and possibly vcard/info dialogs  
> > excluded.
>
> It is entirely possible that this libempathy is one of those
> extraneous libraries that is at the wrong level to make LGPL relevant-
> I'm even less of an expert on this stuff than I was when I was active
> :)
>
> My point was that the choice to include a GPL library should be made
> based on the project's policy, not based on the preferences of the
> authors of the library.

Yes, I completely agree.

My fault for using your mail to reply to even though I was replying  
more in general and not to your comment.

Cheers,
  Mikael Hallendal

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