On 2012-11-10, at 12:17, Daniel Muhra <daniel.mu...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Don't get me wrong, I really agree with the basic principles of The GPL, but 
> from a Users point of view I still find the situation quite unsatisfactory 
> (Unfortunately I heavily rely on Skype, but the Skype client on Mac REALLY 
> sucks).

Agreed (on all points).

> Anyhow, so the only solution for this case would be to pack all SkypeKit 
> related stuff into a separate application and write a (GPL compatible) Adium 
> plugin that uses IPC techniques to communicate with it.
> Doesn't sound very elegant from a development perspective, but at least that 
> should comply with the GPL, right?


Yes, and Apple's XPC stuff is very well suited for this kind of thing (but 
10.7+ only).

Regards,
Andreas Monitzer

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