On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:26:27AM +0100, Sascha Vogt wrote: > Hi, Hello,
> Stéphane Bisinger schrieb: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to hear from you what you think about all of this, and > > particularly about bug #79 (implementing OpenAIM specifications). > > My opinion, from what I have read so far (which isn't much), is that > > there are two issues: firstly it would be really hard for us to > > implement two of the required conditions and secondly I think that > > these specifications aren't "Open" enough to be used in an open source > > project. I haven't searched (yet), but it would be good to see if an other open source project has decided to use the specifications. > > What about you, guys? What do you think? > > Well, I have to admit, that I did not read the terms, but from what you > told us I guess we simply cannot do this. Of course we could implement > some of the required conditions, but how could we prevent, that they > aren't removed by a simple patch? But I don't think that wouldn't be an issue for us. Because when they change the source they are the ones who are responsible. > We would have to change the license to cover and forbid such a patch. No, I think we could just refer to the AOL license at the places where these issues are implemented. > And that would require that *all* authors of CenterICQ and CenterIM > would have to accept such a change. I guess we cannot count on konsts > aggreement ;) -> As I said before: We cannot implement the conditions > and make sure they remain. Like I said before, AFAIK we don't have to make sure of that. Because when someone else changes the source they become responsible. But I'm no lawyer, so I could be wrong. > PS: If we can use the specs without implementing those required > conditions, then I'm fine with doing so. More generally speaking: I'm > fine with restrictions on the coder (as e.g not to produce software to > abuse the service, etc...) but not with restrictions to the user. I totally agree with you on this. Tiger!P -- A random quote: Vergissen is dierlijk. -- _______________________________________________ Centerim-devel mailing list [email protected] http://centerim.org/mailman/listinfo/centerim-devel http://www.centerim.org/
