A few comments

[Chris Forsythe]

On Oct 17, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Ethan Blanton wrote:

>> 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.
>
> Proteus uses a similar circumvention of the GPL in technicality only,
> on OSX.

Originally it did this to evade the gpl and sell the os x frontend.  
Just in case anyone wanted to know.

Chris
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