Skype plugin development

Willem van Engen dev-pidgin at willem.engen.nl
Tue Oct 16 03:18:55 EDT 2007


> Hmm, I know we talked about the GPL-compatibleness of this a while ago, but I
> don't remember the outcome.  If your protocol plugin directly links to non-GPL
> compatible code then you should not distribute this, as it is a violation of
> our license.
> 
> If it communicates with Skype or a Skype API via TCP then you're fine.

It may not _always_ be TCP (whatever X uses for your setup), but it certainly
does not include or link to any non-open source libraries. Apart from, maybe
in the future, Mac OS X or Windows system libraries.

- Willem




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