Hello, We plan to contact all people having contributed to Ekiga or GnomeMeeting in the past provided their code is still being used. You probably all know that GnomeMeeting was licensed under the GPL with a special exception allowing it to be linked with OpenH323 and PWLIB which are licensed under an incompatible license, GnomeMeeting was renamed into Ekiga and the exception was changed in order to allow it to be linked with OPAL. It is not clear if changing the exception without contacting everyone was a good idea or not. We could argue that OPAL and OpenH323 are the same library, but the opposite is also true. Moreover, the exception applies to OPAL and PWLIB, but not to their plugins and you probably know that PWLIB plugins to access the audio and video devices are also released under a GPL incompatible license (the MPL). We would like to clarify the situation once for all. We have hesitated between updating the GPL exception or relicensing Ekiga under the LGPL. The advantage of the second situation is that we do not have such conflicts arising anymore and our code is still well protected against proprietary derivative works.
The final decision will be made public as soon as possible. -- _ Damien Sandras (o- //\ Ekiga Softphone : http://www.ekiga.org/ v_/_ NOVACOM : http://www.novacom.be/ FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org/ SIP Phone : sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
