Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

[Sven Herzberg <herzi gnome-de org>]

Xavier Claessens wrote:
> * Purpose: Empathy [1] consists of a rich set of reusable instant
> messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses
> Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main
> goal is to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and
> libempathy-gtk libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets
> that can be embeded into any GNOME application.
>   

Next question: consistency with the platform

The GNOME platform uses LGPL as the license of choice to provide ISVs
with a powerful stack that anyone can use - even to build proprietary
software.

You say, you took code from gossip - which is GPL.

How do you plan to mess with this? Introduce a GPL-only library into the
platform? Get the code relicensed?

I really think that this needs to be solved before we even add empathy
as a blessed dependency.

Regards,
  Sven