Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

27 mar 2008 kl. 11.18 skrev Patryk Zawadzki:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Martyn Russell  
> <martyn imendio com> wrote:

Hi,

> > Currently there are 22 files which either have or should have my/ 
> > Gossip
> > copyright information in libempathy alone. There are 43 source  
> > files. So
> > half of libempathy is not copyright to you to re-license.
>
> So you are basically saying "I'm -1 because of relicensing problems
> that I'm causing myself?" Please point the rest of us to the
> discussion where Imendio/Gossip staff gives their reasons against
> LGPL.

There is very little such discussion to point at since Xavier still  
hasn't formally contacted the authors of Gossip with a request for  
such a relicense. We have said that we are not interested in doing the  
necessary work for this to happen.

Bottom line is that the entire problem has been ignored and comes up  
over and over again when Empathy is being proposed for inclusion in  
GNOME. Since the last time around, no effort of solving this has been  
made from Empathy developers.

This leaves me wondering whether the plan is to force the Gossip  
developers to relicense their code by making us look like the bad  
guys. Empathy was forked from Gossip since we disagreed on the right  
approach to take, the fact that he choose to reuse Gossip's code in  
ways it was not intended is in my opinion his problem, not ours.

I personally don't see why libempathy-gtk needs to be installed as a  
library and find this discussion about relicensing moot. Make it an  
application library and not something intended for outsiders to use.

I would also like to point out that this is the personal view of the  
Gossip developers, not a company stand point against relicensing.

And my personal view (as a gossip developer) is that I don't think  
Empathy is the way to do IM in GNOME, which is part of the reason for  
the fork in the first place :)

Best Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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