On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <eva...@dreskin.net> wrote: > > On Jan 11, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote: > >> Can any of the libraries be taken out of adium in order to reduce this >> number? One would assume that adium will need to change anyhow to go >> into the applestore. >> >> I'm willing to give contacting them all a try if the appeal to apple >> process doesn't work, but I'd need an exact list of which libraries >> would be necessary going to the app store. > > I appreciate the offer, but as Stephen said, there are some big libraries > involved which by themselves would be an insurmountable obstacle. libpurple > alone lists 556 contributors, without email addresses, in its COPYRIGHT file. >
I'm still willing to try it. I don't think Apple is going to change their license, and at least we could say we tried. I realize how big of a task this is, but I'm still willing to attempt it. The alternative to all of this of course is to replace the parts that make relicensing a major issue. > -Evan > > >
