Am Mittwoch, den 26.03.2008, 18:34 +0100 schrieb Xavier Claessens: > Le mercredi 26 mars 2008 à 18:24 +0100, Sven Herzberg a écrit : > > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Martyn Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > 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. > > We have libwnck for example. And GNOME don't accept anything in the > plateform if it's not yet for at least one cycle in the desktop IIRC.
libwnck is a completely different issue; it's a special-purpose library with really few use-aces (most of the covered by the panel applets already). If you want libempathy to be a "rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets" (quoting your original proposal), you want it in the platform, so getting it into the desktop first will only work if you have a concrete outline on how to get it into the platform later. Accepting this as a desktop-only proposal doesn't seem right for something with your outlined goals. Desktop-first, platform-later would be something we could agree on, but then you already said that you don't have any plans for that. Regards, Sven _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
