A few comments

[Gary Kramlich]

Eion Robb wrote:

<snip>

> Wasn't there a fork of Pidgin somewhere that did do this so that plugins  
> could be closed source?  I would consider that more of a GPL 'spirt'  
> violation thing.

Wrong fork.  Try 'man fork' in a term if you have the developer man
pages installed.

<snip>


> Fair enough.  I'm not wanting to upset or make anyone uncomfortable anyone  
> over a bit of code.  I'm happy to take my code elsewhere if there was  
> consensus (how would that happen btw... is there some kind of voting thing  
> that happens?), or if lawyers found it to be illegal.  I'm still happy to  
> plod away at improving Pidgin/libpurple -- as long as its not too  
> 'immoral' of me to try to combine IM's with chat's :)

You're free to create a sourceforge project or what have you, but
chances are you will probably run into the same issues that Ethan has
mentioned.

-- 
Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com>

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