commercial use of javajabberc?
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In my day job I am a developer on a Java project building a control system for mines. We can't convince our very big employer to release any of the source code. One of the ideas we have is that we could use IM to send alerts from our product to users, because it seems that no matter how difficult it is to teach people how to control a mine using software, they can all use IM clients. As javajabberc is GPL, we couldn't use it as it is. We'd need it to be LGPL, at least.
My other question is about whether javajabberc is suitable for this purpose in any case. I guess with most IM systems, all users have to register with and authenticate with some sort of server. This means that our software would need a user id and so on, but would not be a standard user in that it wouldn't want to run a GUI and certainly wouldn't be able to respond to messages from other users. Does jabber handle robotic users well in general?
I have just started researching this idea today, so please forgive the newbieness of the questions. I am pretty certain I can do IRC integration very quickly, but I don't understand the other IM products so well, yet. Jabber looks like a great way to bring our dull mine control stuff to people's desktops. Thanks,
John
Jabber would be ideal for what you want, since you can easily extend the xml namespaces to include whatever content you want.
As for JJC supporting robotic users, that isn't a problem. Since JJC is now two projects (a core Jabber library and a GUI client) building programs that interact with Jabber isn't very difficult at all.
As for a licence change. You'll have to give me a few days to think it over and talk to the other developers first. If anything was going to happen I'd probably just change the licence of the core to LGPL and keep the GUI client as GPL, but as I say I need some time to decide first.
Thanks for showing interest in JJC.
Russ.
i am also writing an app that couldn't be released with GPL. And JJC sounds like it would be very useful. So 1 vote from me for a change in licence, please.
My Proxool sourceforge project uses the Apache Software Licence for this very reason. [Note - I know very little about licences though :)]