Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24
- From: Martyn Russell <martyn imendio 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 17:16:55 +0000
Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> 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.
Huh? What Travis said is completely pertinent. GNOME requires libraries
are LGPL as I understand it, these are not.
> 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.
This won't happen.
This was discussed last time Empathy was suggested for inclusion.
--
Regards,
Martyn
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