[Adium-devl] AIHyperlinks framework (was Re: Community versus ego?)

[Chris Forsythe]

Getting a list of contributors to that and then trying to relicense that 
portion might be feasible, if it's a small list of people.

Chris

Stephen Holt wrote:

>Well, yes and no.  It's in its own framework because it very much is  
>its own little world, and doesn't depend on any other code in the  
>project. So, potentially, it'd be trivial for another coca based  
>project to snatch it up and reuse it.
>
>However, to my knowledge, no one else has done that.  Were I wiser  
>when I first wrote it, I'd of given the code a more liberal license,  
>like BSD or LGPL, to make my intent clearer.
>
>I'll leave it to the active developers to decide its fate, but that  
>was my rational behind setting it aside from the rest of the project.
>
>--
>Stephen Holt
>stephen.holt at gmail.com
>http://cloggedtubes.com
>
>On Aug 1, 2007, at 6:37 PM, Augie Fackler <lists at durin42.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I was about to ask this because of unrelated cleanup I'm doing. Do we
>>have any compelling reason to keep AIHyperlinks stuff off in its own
>>little world like that? I can't see any compelling reason to do so.
>>Augie
>>
>>On Aug 1, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Stephen Holt wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I dont know if my linking classes are even around anymore, but they
>>>should probably be renamed too, even though they're in their own
>>>framework. I dont think anyone else uses them.
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Stephen Holt
>>>stephen.holt at gmail.com
>>>http://cloggedtubes.com
>>>
>>>On Aug 1, 2007, at 6:24 PM, "David C. Clark" <dcclark at mtu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>I'm in favor of this simply because I use Xcode's filter to find
>>>>>everything, so common prefixes == good. As for reducing egos... I
>>>>>think we all express our egos elsewhere ;)
>>>>>DCMessageContextDisplayPlugin or whatever it's called may be
>>>>>dchoby's
>>>>>originally, but at this point it's been through half the other
>>>>>people
>>>>>in the project, and really looks nothing like the original.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Heh, I'm glad someone mentioned this. When I saw a series of (SOC?)
>>>>edits
>>>>to the DCMessage... and DCGroupChat... files recently, I tried
>>>>sending an
>>>>email to the author to say "rename them! I haven't touched them in
>>>>years!"
>>>>but it bounced. There are still a bunch of relics of that naming
>>>>scheme
>>>>(ES, DC, CB, ...) hanging around the project -- I highly recommend
>>>>doing
>>>>away with them.
>>>>
>>>>DC
>>>>
>>>><relurk>
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>>>>