Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24
- From: Xavier Claessens <xclaesse gmail com>
- To: Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org>
- Cc: Travis Watkins <amaranth ubuntu com>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:15:09 +0100
Le mercredi 26 mars 2008 à 18:05 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki a écrit :
> 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.
It's not required to be LGPL to enter the desktop, it's only to enter
the plateform. I'm not proposing libempathy(-gtk) to the plateform and
that won't happen soon.
Xavier.
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