Skype in Adium

[Evan Schoenberg, M.D.]

On Jun 22, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Christian Doyle wrote:

> I'm not sure if people have seen this: http://developer.skype.com/  but it looks like it will be possible to hook into skype's proprietary apis for video calling pretty soon.  I skimmed the Licence Agreement and I didn't see any wording that makes it sounds like they don't want open source projects using it.

IANAL, but I see problems from section 1.1, for starters:

"Subject to Your compliance with these API Terms, Skype grants to You a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-sublicensable, non-transferable right to use the Skype API for a Permitted Purpose, as defined in paragraph 2 below."

Adium is distributed under the GPL, which is an inherently transferrable license.  We can't make use of resources or code that we aren't authorized to let others make use of, as well.

-Evan
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