Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

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.

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Regards,
Martyn