On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 18:08, Christopher Forsythe <ch...@growl.info>wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Stephen Holt <sh...@adium.im> wrote: > > > > On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote: > > > >> Can any of the libraries be taken out of adium in order to reduce this > >> number? > > > > > > libglib is the big one, and no - libpurple depends on libglib. > > > > > > That's fine, I'd just need to start preparing to find all of these > people and making a list. > > Do we know what kind of permission we'd need to ask for? Is something > like this adequate? "hey, we want make adium easier to download for > users, and we have to do x, y, and z to do that. We need your > permission in order to do that. Is it ok?" > > Is the intention to put Adium in the store for free or for sale? > > This isn't going to happen, there's a huge amount of people who have contributed to the projects. If even only one of them isn't contactable or reachable it's gone. We basically need to relicense a core set of GPL libraries and that isn't going to happen. It would be free. I'm going to write a blogpost and hopefully have our users spam Apple with complaints. Not much more we can do. Zac
