Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 17:16 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> So are you saying that Imendio is willing to relicense their code that
> can be found in Empathy as LGPL so that empathy maintainers can go
> forward with the relicensing ?

As I said this was already discussed.

>From memory the conclusion was that the three people that have added
most input (Mikael, Richard and myself) were not interested in
re-licensing it and not only that, but it would involve contacting a lot
of people that have contributed over the years.

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Regards,
Martyn