No, Kopete developers will NEVER accept this ICQ Developer Agreement. It is against GPL:
=================================================== (from http://www.icq.com/legal/icq_developer_network_agreement.html) III. a. ii. End User License. You must ensure that distribution or use of an Developer Product requires end users to agree to an enforceable end user license containing at least the following specific minimum terms: ... (iii) a prohibition against modifying or creating derivative works of any ICQ components of your Developer Product; (iv) a prohibition against decompiling, reverse engineering, disassembling, and otherwise reducing the ICQ components of your Developer Product to a human-perceivable form, to the full extent allowed by law; ... III. b. Restrictions. You may not use or allow anyone to use the ICQ Developer Network, ICQ Messaging Network and Tools in any way that: ... (q) You may not use any open source in a manner that may subject ICQ to the license obligations of the open source software. =================================================== So ICQ protocol is NOT opene for alternative clients. 2011/4/20 Elena <mandrake.l...@yandex.ru> > > Hi all! > > My name is Elena, I'm one of LeechCraft project (www.leechcraft.org) > contributors. > > Recently we found out that ICQ protocol had been opened for alternative > clients. That means that any non commercial use must be according to > > ICQ Developer Agreement > (http://www.icq.com/legal/icq_developer_network_agreement.html). > > The official specs of protocol also will be available after signing (that's > what we need for LeechCraft). > > Besides, there is limit for daily connecting users: not more than 300 000. > > Otherwise, developers should contact to ICQ for "Licensed Partner > Application". (See Clause 4 here: > http://www.icq.com/legal/guidelines_for_connecting_to_the_ICQ_network.html). > > Or ICQ can prevent connections in case of limit exceed. > > May be Kopete Development Team can comment this? > > Would you also sign Developer Agreement or will ignore it? > > And also how was ICQ in Kopete realized from the very begining? Without any > specs from ICQ? > > Thank you in advance > > _______________________________________________ > kopete-devel mailing list > kopete-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel > -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list kopete-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
