Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24

["Travis Watkins" <amaranth ubuntu com>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com> wrote:
> Xavier Claessens wrote:
>  > Le mardi 25 mars 2008 à 07:01 -0500, Travis Watkins a écrit :
>  >> Did anything ever happen with the license issues for the libraries?
>  >> They should be LGPL.
>
>  Any they won't be.
>
>  Both libempathy and libempathy-gtk use a lot of GPL code from Gossip and
>  some of the files are not correctly attributed with the authors too I
>  noticed.
>
>  So it is a -1 for that reason for me.
>

In that case -1 from me as well. If it's not LGPL I can't use it and I
suspect others will have the same problem. GPL for a library you want
everyone to use doesn't make much sense.


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Travis Watkins
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