A few comments

[Colin Barrett]

On Oct 17, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> On Oct 17, 2007, at 11:24 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:
>
>> I realize that the copyright situation is probably intractable at  
>> this
>> point, but seems like as a library, libpurple would want to be LGPL
>
> That makes the rather significant assumption that libpurple wants to  
> be used as widely as possible without significant regard for those  
> uses being in the context of Free Software.

True, although I would argue that the only purpose of software is to  
be used, and that it should take appropriate steps to ensure that it  
is used as widely as possible, by as many people, or it will be  
replaced.

-Colin