Fwd: EQO messenger

[Mark Doliner]

That's a fantastic response.

I added a section to the top of our "What is libpurple?" wiki page that lists
people who use libpurple.  As with all our wiki pages, anyone should feel free
to add to this, edit it, etc.

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple

-Mark

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:34:51 -0800, Sean Egan wrote
> I think Vitaly forgot to reply-all.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Vitaly Takmazov <vitalyster at gmail.com>
> Date: Jan 29, 2008 11:19 AM
> Subject: Re: EQO messenger
> To: Sean Egan <seanegan at gmail.com>
> 
> 2008/1/29, Sean Egan <seanegan at gmail.com>:
> 
> > On Jan 29, 2008 10:03 AM, Vitaly Takmazov <vitalyster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > http://community.eqo.com/blog/chris/eqo_symbian_beta_is_here
> > >
> > > This product uses libpurple. Can they use it without giving me the
> > > modified source code as it is required by GPL?
> >
> > No, the GPL does require them to offer source code to anyone they
> > release binaries to.
> >
> > What evidence do you have that they're using libpurple?
> 
> They xmpp-module replies "libpurple" to iq:version request.
> 
> I just receive mail from eqo. They said:
> "
> Hi Vitaly
> 
> We do make use of libpurple to provide our service, however we do not
> distribute any application containing libpurple and therefore we are
> not required by GPLv2 to distribute the source. Specifically,
> libpurple is not contained in our Symbian (or WinMo) clients.
> 
> You can verify this by running "nm" and "strings" on our Symbian
> client executable. We do take the licensing conditions of any and all
> open source code we make use of seriously, and ensure we are in full
> compliance with all licensing requirements.
> 
> Jeff LaPorte
> "