Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24

[Sven Herzberg <herzi gnome-de org>]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 26.03.2008, 18:15 +0100 schrieb Xavier Claessens:
> 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.

Then, I actually don't see _any_ point in proposing a library for GNOME.
Proposing a library to me means that you have something being used by
many components and not only desktop-ones. In the past we've been trying
hard to keep all our components available for anyone, not just
GPL-users; we shouldn't drop that just to get empathy into the desktop.

Regards,
  Sven