A few comments - how does a plugin become derivative under the law?

[Andreas Monitzer]

On Oct 26, 2007, at 15:06, Stephen Eilert wrote:

> Here comes this Skype plugin thing again.
>
> I've got an (possibly dumb) idea. Since it is a Pidgin plugin and
> there's no VV yet, I'll assume that it's text-only. So, instead of
> coding a Pidgin plugin that links to Skype, why not create a Jabber
> server? That is, this server would talk to Skype and forward messages
> back and forth. Pidgin would only have to connect to it using the
> standard Jabber protocol.

The problem is that you need a separate instance of the Skype app  
running for every logged in user. This is kinda a bummer for server- 
based solutions.

Plus, it's probably not allowed by their EULA (haven't checked that,  
though).

andy