27 sep 2007 kl. 16.00 skrev Luis Villa: Hi,
>>> It is of course their call. And likewise it is the GNOME community's >>> call not to accept libraries licensed as such. >>> >>> We have a very longstanding and very deliberate policy to license >>> our >>> libraries LGPL, and it has served us well. This is not the time to >>> change it, *especially* since we want these libraries to be deeply >>> embedded into all of GNOME, not just some applications. >> >> I'm a bit unsure about how useful libempathy-gtk would be for third >> party applications? Do we have any use cases for this as a library. >> From the way I suggested at the time of the fork was to make Empathy >> run on top of Telepathy and create the required applications for >> integrating with mission control etc. This doesn't require an >> external library though. >> >> For example I can't see the chat dialog widgets to be all that useful >> to other applications as they should preferably message Empathy to >> show a chat dialog for a specific user. The same with most of the >> other widgets, roster widget and possibly vcard/info dialogs >> excluded. > > It is entirely possible that this libempathy is one of those > extraneous libraries that is at the wrong level to make LGPL relevant- > I'm even less of an expert on this stuff than I was when I was active > :) > > My point was that the choice to include a GPL library should be made > based on the project's policy, not based on the preferences of the > authors of the library. Yes, I completely agree. My fault for using your mail to reply to even though I was replying more in general and not to your comment. Cheers, Mikael Hallendal -- Imendio AB, http://www.imendio.com _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
