Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24

["Patryk Zawadzki" <patrys pld-linux org>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Travis Watkins <amaranth ubuntu com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com> wrote:
>  >  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.

Try to focus on the project, not on technical (legal) problems
involved in making it part of GNOME. It's their job to relicense
properly before becoming a part of desktop. If they fail then I
believe all of us will be -1.

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Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution