[Adium-devl] Adding a plugin to Adium repository

[David Smith]

On Jul 12, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:

> On Jul 12, 2008, at 22:14, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>> I would prefer maturing our plugin API to allow proper versioning,
>> doing away with the obnoxious plugin dialogue, to including this
>> plugin by default.
>
> agreed
>
>> My reading of the GPLv2 agrees with Peter's. We have allowed this
>> behavior without complaint in the past (e.g. the Gizmo Adium Plugin).
>
> You personally might allow it, but the FSF doesn't agree with you:
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL
>
> Plugins for Adium have to be released with a GPL-compatible license.
> If you want to remove this constraint, you have use a modified version
> of the GPL, like Linux and gcc. However, this would be a license
> change of the whole codebase.
>
> andy

Note that we haven't assigned copyright to the FSF, and their  
interpretation of it really has no bearing on what we do beyond being  
a data point to consider.

			David