Skype Plugin

Richard Laager rlaager at wiktel.com
Fri Sep 14 10:07:03 EDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 15:48 +1200, Eion Robb wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:25:17 +1200, Evan Schoenberg <evands at pidgin.im>  
> wrote:
> 
> > I welcome corrections from someone with more legal accumen, but as a
> > first-pass thought: I don't think the Skype API can be used in a
> > program licensed under the GPL
> 
> Skype API Terms of Use here:  
> http://www.skype.com/intl/en/company/legal/terms/api.html
> 
> Nothing says it can't be under whatever licence I choose.

I'm not a lawyer either. This is not legal advice.

My advice: Don't get anywhere near that Skype API. That's a nasty, nasty
license from my reading of it.

Richard
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