[Adium-devl] Leopard Tickets

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jun 13, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Sean Egan wrote:

> On 6/13/07, David Smith <catfish.man at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So yeah, the situation sucks pretty badly, and this course of action
>> would very likely violate our license from $next_release_date until
>> october. Not putting the fixes in would mean Adium would crash on the
>> new OS release. Putting the fixes out in the open would almost
>> inevitably get cease-and-desist'd immediately, bringing us back to
>> square one.
>
> Link libpurple against Adium code I can't get the source to, and I'll
> cease-and-desist you just as quickly :)
We shan't be attracting your legal ire, Sean.  Or any other kind, I  
hope, except that one kind you know I like so much.

> You're concerned that you can't release fixes that are needed to work
> on an OS that's not released yet? I guess it's for other people who
> have signed this NDA who want to use Adium on the unreleased beta OS?
*nod* Most developers and many developer-wanna-bes will be running  
beta versions of OS X 10.5 "Leopard".  Besides allowing them (and by  
them, I include multiple people on the Adium team) to run Adium now,  
it would be very nice if, when Leopard is officially released, the  
version of Adium which is in the wild and has been in the wild for  
some time runs well on it.

For closed source apps, this isn't a problem; 95% of commercial  
applications worth their salt will be running without a hitch on  
Leopard.  Unfortunately, our openness presents a problem, as we're  
seeing here.

I look forward to hearing about any other solutions y'all can come up  
with, David :)

-Evan

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