[haiku-development] Re: Is im_kit within the scope of Haiku for GSoC projects?
- From: "Salvatore Benedetto" <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:31:21 +0000
On 07/04/2008, Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Pier Luigi Fiorini
>
> <pierluigi.fiorini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Nice! My main arguments agains libpurple are D-Bus and GPL, glib may be a
> > price we can pay to gain more/better protocol support.
> > For me the only disadvantage is the GPL license which *may* not be a
> problem
> > for a protocol add-on.
>
>
> The problem is the IM kit addons still have to link against libim.so
> if I remember correctly, which would be a violation if distributed
> with the IM Kit in such a form. Unless said plugin was distributed
> completely separately from the IM Kit itself and/or required hand
> compilation.
I'm personally not for using libpurple because of the license mainly,
but other reason too.
>
>
> Rene
>
>
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Salvatore Benedetto (a.k.a. emitrax)
Student of Computer Engineer
University of Pisa
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