Skype plugin development

[Bin Chen]

On 10/16/07, Eion Robb <eion at bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Yep, I've been making a Skype plugin for several weeks too.  I've
> currently got mine working on Pidgin on Windows and Linux, and just today,
> Adium on OS X.
>
> My source code and screenshots are available at
> http://tinyurl.com/2by8rw
>
> There were concerns on the forum from other developers who wern't sure
> about the legal aspects of interoperating with the Skype API, since the
> Skype API EULA seems to be restrictive.  I had hoped to hear back some
> more legal opinions.  However, my legal opinion is that because there is
> no non-free libraries that it's GPL compliant.  The OS X version I'm not
> so sure about, since the Skype.Framework that is offered for use by Skype
> isn't open.
>
> Thanks for the link to your code.  It would be good to collaborate and
> come up with a good plugin.  Maybe one that would get included into
> libpurple some day ;)

I think due to GPL issue the code can't link to libpurple, but just as
a new lib and running in a separate process, what need to add in
libpurple is just an snip of code to communicate with the skype plugin
process.

>
> Cheers,
> --Eion
>
> > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:57:19 +0200
> > From: Willem van Engen <dev-pidgin at willem.engen.nl>
> > Subject: Skype plugin development
> > To: devel at pidgin.im
> > Message-ID: <1192489039.25876.15.camel at danny>
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been developing a plugin for Skype using the Skype API in my
> > spare
> > time during the past weeks. The project is already in a usable
> > state, so
> > it's probabely a good idea to share something. Please find it at
> >
> >   http://willem.engen.nl/projects/libpurple-skypeapi/
> >
> > When I started I did look around to see if anyone else was working
> > on
> > it, and found none. Today I came across some messages from Eion
> > Robb
> > sent in September about exactly the same thing. Maybe it's a good
> > idea
> > to collaborate, it would be a waste to duplicate effort.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Willem van Engen
>
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