[haiku-development] Re: Is im_kit within the scope of Haiku for GSoC projects?

  • From: "Rene Gollent" <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:28:14 -0500

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.

Rene

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