Re: [Gaim-cabal] SoC: Student wants to add full QQ support to Adium/Gaim

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

On 5/1/06, Luke Schierer <lsc...@us...> wrote:
> There are a number of QQ for gaim plugins out there for various
> versions of gaim.  The problem with ALL of them is that they include
> files (notably a binary data file) blatently ripped out of the
> official client.  This is not acceptable from a GPL standpoint.  The
> authors can't copyright a file they pulled out of the official
> client, and thus we cannot release it under the GPL.

If I recall, the file is a some geolocation data stored in some
obscure binary format. I believe we had determined that the actual
data in the file was uncopyrightable, and that it would suffice to
write a script that converted it to XML and installed that in
/usr/share or some such.

-s.