Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24

[Sven Herzberg <herzi gnome-de org>]

Am Mittwoch, den 26.03.2008, 18:05 +0100 schrieb Patryk Zawadzki:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Travis Watkins <amaranth ubuntu com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com> wrote:
> >  >  Both libempathy and libempathy-gtk use a lot of GPL code from Gossip and
> >  >  some of the files are not correctly attributed with the authors too I
> >  >  noticed.
> >  >
> >  >  So it is a -1 for that reason for me.
> >  In that case -1 from me as well. If it's not LGPL I can't use it and I
> >  suspect others will have the same problem. GPL for a library you want
> >  everyone to use doesn't make much sense.
> 
> Try to focus on the project, not on technical (legal) problems
> involved in making it part of GNOME. It's their job to relicense
> properly before becoming a part of desktop. If they fail then I
> believe all of us will be -1.

Travis is focusing well on his own project. He very clearly stated that
libempathy if of no use if it is not LGPL-licensed (»I can't use it…«).

Regards,
  Sven