Fwd: Re: Closed-source interoperability with the GPL

[Ethan Blanton]

Eion Robb spake unto us the following wisdom:
> I got in touch with the FSF about whether it was legal or not to have a
> Skype-API plugin for libpurple.  He's come back with what I had thought;
> that it's legal to do so.
> 
> I've attached his email below.
> 
> Does this end the disputes now? :)

I'm sorry; maybe you didn't understand that Sean has *already* talked
to *our* lawyers, who say that it is NOT legal.  You have been told
this on at least two separate occasions.

So, no -- the dispute was already ended, and it isn't legal.  Even if
you continue to believe it is legal, it is contrary to the wishes of
the development community.

Ethan

-- 
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws [that have no remedy
for evils].  They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor
determined to commit crimes.
		-- Cesare Beccaria, "On Crimes and Punishments", 1764
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