Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24



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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