Is this thing on?

[Gary Kramlich]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 5:19 PM Moses Lei <bugs at moseslei.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 3:16 PM erythronium23 <erythronium23 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I work at a fairly large company (>2000 engineers on Macs) and very time
>> I introduce a Google Talk user to Adium, they adopt it. I think part of the
>> adoption/growth problem is simply visibility. I think that a clear value
>> proposition, and presence in the app store, would go a long way. I could be
>> wrong, but I think it's not expensive to test that hypothesis.
>>
> We've already had the discussion of whether we can be in the App Store
> years ago. We can't because it violates the GPL and people are not willing
> to grant exemptions for Adium or libpurple in order to fulfill the App
> Store's distribution requirements.
>

There's slightly more to it..  There are about 600ish people I think
currently in the COPYRIGHT file in the Pidgin repo.  Figuring out who
worked on libpurple code is on the surface trivial, untill you remember a
lot of credit was given via commit message.  Even then, if we do have email
addresses, some of them go back 20 years and all it will take is 1 that
covers enough code to make it not worth it.

Forgot to mention before for packaging that there's nothing wrong with a
homebrew cask either...

Thanks,

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Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com>
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