legal stuff

Nathan Walp nwalp at pidgin.im
Thu Feb 22 18:26:28 EST 2007


Sadrul H Chowdhury wrote:
> 
> On 2/22/07, *Gary Kramlich* <grim at reaperworld.com 
> <mailto:grim at reaperworld.com>> wrote:
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>     Luke Schierer wrote:
>      > We *really* need to release already.  Is there *any* news from the
>      > lawyers?
>      >
>      > luke
> 
>     I agree, but we can't just *RELEASE*, there are a few things that need
>     taking care of before so, otherwise third party plugins and the like
>     will be screwed (well at least pre-existing stuff).  We need to remove
>     the old gaim.pc.in <http://gaim.pc.in>, figureout if we're doing a
>     pidgin-unisntalled.pc.in <http://pidgin-unisntalled.pc.in>
>     and libpurple.pc.in <http://libpurple.pc.in>, as well as making sure
>     all of that works.
> 
> 
> We have pidgin/pidgin.pc.in and libpurple/purple.pc.in now. I think we 
> need a gtk-compat.h or some such to make sure the existing gtk plugins 
> compile without requiring any change to the plugins.
> 

I'll start working on gaim-gtk-compat.h if someone will start 
proof-skimming gaim-compat.h.  We also need to do all the changes 
predicted in that header, so we can begin to test-compile some of the 
most popular plugins.

-Nathan


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