License issues for SkypeKit plugin

[Andreas Monitzer]

On 2012-11-10, at 12:17, Daniel Muhra <daniel.muhra at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Don't get me wrong, I really agree with the basic principles of The GPL, but from a Users point of view I still find the situation quite unsatisfactory (Unfortunately I heavily rely on Skype, but the Skype client on Mac REALLY sucks).

Agreed (on all points).

> Anyhow, so the only solution for this case would be to pack all SkypeKit related stuff into a separate application and write a (GPL compatible) Adium plugin that uses IPC techniques to communicate with it.
> Doesn't sound very elegant from a development perspective, but at least that should comply with the GPL, right?


Yes, and Apple's XPC stuff is very well suited for this kind of thing (but 10.7+ only).

Regards,
Andreas Monitzer