Le jeudi 27 septembre 2007 à 00:48 +0200, Sven Herzberg a écrit : > Xavier Claessens wrote: > > * Purpose: Empathy [1] consists of a rich set of reusable instant > > messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses > > Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main > > goal is to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and > > libempathy-gtk libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets > > that can be embeded into any GNOME application. > > > > Next question: consistency with the platform > > The GNOME platform uses LGPL as the license of choice to provide ISVs > with a powerful stack that anyone can use - even to build proprietary > software. > > You say, you took code from gossip - which is GPL. > > How do you plan to mess with this? Introduce a GPL-only library into the > platform? Get the code relicensed? > > I really think that this needs to be solved before we even add empathy > as a blessed dependency.
I don't propose those libs for the platform, only for the desktop atm, we can even let libempathy(-gtk) as external dep and accept the client in the desktop. Right, libempathy and libemapthy-gtk are GPL because it contains code from Gossip. libempathy mostly contains trivial code from gossip, the rest is rewritten by me or some collabora workers who are 100% OK to relicence, so it shouldn't be a problem to relicence libempathy to LGPL. libempathy-gtk is more a problem since lots of non-trivial code is written by Gossip developers who doesn't seems to agree to relicence to LGPL... I agree the licence will be sooner or later a problem, I see no other solution than convincing Gossip developers to accept LGPL. Xavier Claessens. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
