Source for Win32 Pidgin IM-History Plugin

[Ramaz Korintelly]

Thanks, Daniel.
We will take measures ASAP.

On 6/4/08, Daniel Atallah <datallah at pidgin.im> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Ramaz Korintelly
> <ramaz.korintelly at im-history.com> wrote:
> > It is the IM-History Public API library, it can be used and redistributed
> > without any limitation. Actually closed source, binary for Linux is
> > available as well.
>
> Thanks for the clarification.  Unfortunately, this is a problem.
>
> As I'm sure you're aware, Pidgin (and libpurple) are released under
> the GPL, this means that all plugins must use a compatible license
> (http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins).
>
> I did notice that the in the Pidgin IM-History plugin source comments,
> it is noted as being released under the GPL (which is a great start),
> but the way that it interacts with the (incompatibly licensed)
> imhproxy.dll library violates the license.  I noticed that the linux
> version works in a different way (presumably to avoid this problem).
> See http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs
> for a detailed description of this situation.  Basically, libpurple
> would have to be relicensed to allow this type of situation (which
> isn't going to be possible) because your plugin by definition uses
> parts of libpurple.
>
> There are a couple other problems (the binary installer makes no note
> of the licensing that I can see, nor is the full GPL license included
> with either the installer or the zip file), but these are minor and
> easy to fix compared to the use of an incompatibly licensed library.
>
> Please stop distributing the Windows version of the Pidgin plugin in
> the current form.
>
> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or send an
> email to the pidgin development list (devel at pidgin.im).
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel Atallah.
>
> > On 6/4/08, Daniel Atallah <datallah at pidgin.im> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Ramaz Korintelly
> >> <ramaz.korintelly at im-history.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi Daniel!
> >> >
> >> > Please find the source inside the package:
> >> > http://www.im-history.com/download/IMHistoryPidgin.zip
> >>
> >> Thanks for the link, Ramaz.
> >>
> >> I downloaded the zip file and found the source for the plugin.
> >>
> >> It appears to link indirectly to imhproxy.dll; what is the license for
> >> that dll and is the source available?
> >>
> >> Thanks again,
> >> Daniel
>



-- 
Best regards,
Ramaz, The IM-History Team
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