Skype Protocol Plugin

[Luke Schierer]

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On Apr 28, 2009, at 18:38 EDT, Richard Laager wrote:

> I *thought* we all agreed long ago that regardless of whether this is
> legally a GPL violation or not, we weren't going to encourage the  
> use of
> this plugin because it violates the spirit of the GPL. On the
> philosophical side, you're still playing with and depending on non- 
> free
> code. As a practical consequence, this plugin makes it less likely  
> that
> someone will write an entirely free (GPLed) Skype protocol plugin.
>
> To establish an example of something that I think *would* be legally
> infringing, I don't believe the GPL wouldn't allow someone to take the
> Skype API, the Skype protocol plugin and libpurple and ship them
> together saying, "It's libpurple, now with Skype support." To me, that
> would be a derivative work of libpurple and thus more than mere
> aggregation.
>
> Richard

Richard has adequately and accurately summarized my understanding of  
past consensus.

Luke

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