Le jeudi 27 septembre 2007 à 15:48 +0200, Mikael Hallendal a écrit : > 27 sep 2007 kl. 15.32 skrev Luis Villa: > > Hi, > > > On 9/27/07, Andrew Cowie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:03 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > >>> I wouldn't re-license it > >> > >> [there is tons of both context and history here, which the rest of > >> this > >> thread covers. On the topic of licencing, however:] > >> > >> I must admit that as an advocate of software freedom and as > >> someone who > >> works for a firm that releases its work under the GPL, I am not > >> adverse > >> to the idea of a GNOME library being licenced under the GPL only. > >> > >> I realize full well that there is a certain fraction of the wider > >> universe of people who use the GNOME platform who are using it > >> under the > >> pragmatic terms of the LGPL to write their proprietary software. > >> Some of > >> those companies contribute to our community their IP and their > >> employees' time, and that's fantastic. > >> > >> I hugely respect, however, the expression that has been made by > >> people > >> who wrote software under the GPL that they wish it to remain so > >> licenced. That's their call, and it is effectively final. > > > > 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.
Some examples: - Tracker wants EmpathyChatView to display chat logs found by the indexer. - nautilus-sento uses a widget that inherit from GtkCombobox to select a contact. - Megaphone (atm it's part of Empathy tarball but it can change) uses EmpathyContactListView to show the contact list. - Megaphone uses the contact information window from libempathy-gtk But I agree that many widgets won't be used in third party applications and I don't know if there is non-GPL application interested by using empathy widgets. > Best Regards, > Mikael Hallendal Xavier Claessens. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list