Skype chat - again

[David Balazic]

John Bailey wrote :

> David Balazic wrote:
> > Hi!
> >  
> > There seems to be a lot of progrmas out there, that support 
> Skype chat.
> > Exmaples: fring, Nimbuzz ..
> > They are mostly for mobile phones.
> >  
> > I could not find out yet, how they do it, but meybe they 
> can be used as
> > a starting point ?
> >  
> > Regards,
> > David
> 
> We will never include Skype support, so long as doing so 
> would be a violation of
> the GPL license Pidgin is distributed under.  Even if it 
> weren't, we aren't
> going to include a protocol none of us uses or wants to maintain.

What conflicts are between GPL and the Skype protocol ?

You mean you use all those other protocols Pidgin suppports ? ;-)

Regards,
David