[Adium-devl] Google Summer of Code iPhone/iPod Touch Client

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Mar 20, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Mar 20, 2008, at 11:04:27, MAtt Baer wrote:
>> I went ahead and fleshed out some ideas for an Adium iPhone client.
>
> Much as I like these ideas, I don't think they're appropriate for  
> GSoC 2008.
>
> The SDK is still beta and under NDA; it will not come out of beta  
> until sometime in June, and we can only *hope* that it will also  
> come out from under its NDA. The NDA creates a huge problem for us,  
> because the GPL requires us to release our source code, but we can't  
> release the source without violating the NDA (because the source  
> would contain iPhone-SDK secrets).
>
> So while I'd love to see this as a GSoC *2009* project (*if* the SDK  
> is public then), I don't think we can accept it this year.

Apple would be permanently blocking all open source applications from  
the iPhone if the SDK remained permanently under NDA.  I seriously  
doubt that will be the case.

A project making using of the SDK could not be publicly released until  
the NDA is lifted, true, but this would not have to prevent  
development; a private repository could be used, and anyone with  
access to the SDK could safely be given access to it, as well.

-Evan