On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 5:19 PM Moses Lei <b...@moseslei.net> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 3:16 PM erythronium23 <erythroniu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I work at a fairly large company (>2000 engineers on Macs) and very time >> I introduce a Google Talk user to Adium, they adopt it. I think part of the >> adoption/growth problem is simply visibility. I think that a clear value >> proposition, and presence in the app store, would go a long way. I could be >> wrong, but I think it's not expensive to test that hypothesis. >> > We've already had the discussion of whether we can be in the App Store > years ago. We can't because it violates the GPL and people are not willing > to grant exemptions for Adium or libpurple in order to fulfill the App > Store's distribution requirements. >
There's slightly more to it.. There are about 600ish people I think currently in the COPYRIGHT file in the Pidgin repo. Figuring out who worked on libpurple code is on the surface trivial, untill you remember a lot of credit was given via commit message. Even then, if we do have email addresses, some of them go back 20 years and all it will take is 1 that covers enough code to make it not worth it. Forgot to mention before for packaging that there's nothing wrong with a homebrew cask either... Thanks, -- Gary Kramlich <g...@reaperworld.com>
