Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: Gaim-Encryption plugin violates Gaim's license#

2003-06-03 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
On Monday 02 June 2003 23:31, Sean Egan wrote: > "If the program dynamically links plug-ins, and they make function calls > to each other and share data structures, we believe they form a single > program, so plug-ins must be treated as extensions to the main program. > This means they must be rele

Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: Gaim-Encryption plugin violates Gaim's license#

2003-06-02 Thread Sean Egan
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 15:28, Robert McQueen wrote: > My concern is that even if you distribute > in source form, you're still condoning ignoring part of Gaim's license, > which seems highly dubious. So as well as saying "Debian will never ship > this" as a Debian developer, I was also saying "pleas

Re: Gaim-Encryption plugin violates Gaim's license#

2003-06-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:28:43PM +0100, Robert McQueen wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:25:32AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > It should be noted that this can only be a violation of the GPL if > > someone is distributing the encryption plugin in binary form. (Does > > Gentoo distribute bin

Re: Gaim-Encryption plugin violates Gaim's license#

2003-06-02 Thread Robert McQueen
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:25:32AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > It should be noted that this can only be a violation of the GPL if > someone is distributing the encryption plugin in binary form. (Does > Gentoo distribute binaries of this software?) It is generally held that > it would also *not

Re: Gaim-Encryption plugin violates Gaim's license

2003-06-02 Thread Bill Tompkins
Rob- Thanks for your email. When I initially started using OpenSSL with the Gaim-Encryption plugin, I had no plans of distributing binaries of it, and thus I wasn't overly worried about the license issues associated with OpenSSL. I hadn't revisited those issues before releasing the precompiled

Re: Gaim-Encryption plugin violates Gaim's license

2003-06-02 Thread Brandon Low
On Mon, 06/02/03 at 09:25:32 -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 06:21:55AM +0100, Robert McQueen wrote: > > > As a preamble if I just gatecrashed your mailbox or mailing list without > > warning, I am the Debian package maintainer for Gaim, as well as a > > frequent contributor

Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: Gaim-Encryption plugin violates Gaim's license

2003-06-02 Thread Luke Schierer
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:25:32AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 06:21:55AM +0100, Robert McQueen wrote: > > > As a preamble if I just gatecrashed your mailbox or mailing list without > > warning, I am the Debian package maintainer for Gaim, as well as a > > frequent contr

Re: Gaim-Encryption plugin violates Gaim's license

2003-06-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 06:21:55AM +0100, Robert McQueen wrote: > As a preamble if I just gatecrashed your mailbox or mailing list without > warning, I am the Debian package maintainer for Gaim, as well as a > frequent contributor to upstream development. I have just found out > today that the Gai

Gaim-Encryption plugin violates Gaim's license

2003-06-02 Thread Robert McQueen
(cc'ing debian-devel to discourage people from ITPing this, or filing more wishlist bugs on Gaim for me to include it, cc'ing Gentoo's maintainer for the Gaim emerge because they include Gaim-Encryption, cc'ing gaim-devel so everyone there knows, cc'ing fedora-devel because they currently ship the