Is there an alternative to Pidgin, but with less restrictive licensing?

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Is there an alternative to Pidgin, but with less restrictive licensing?

Recently came across pidgin. Its great, and does what I want, but I am not too keen on the GPL license. Other any alternatives, with less restrictive licenses?

I would prefer the library to be C or C++, as I am most familiar with those languages, but a an IM library implemented in python would be interesting too.

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Take a look at kde's kopete. The chat client itself is still GPL but it's underlying library libkopete is LGPL. So you could link with it pretty freely.

caspin 2010-06-07 17:53:48

kopete is GPL2+.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2010-06-07 17:55:32

kopete uses a library like libpurple? (it's a question)

ShinTakezou 2010-06-07 18:20:52

Kopete runs on it's own library called libkopete. The library is lgpl, whereas the app is gpl. I don't know how much of the of kopete's functionality is contained in libkopete.

caspin 2010-06-07 18:50:16

caspin: thanks. I had not heard of kopete before now. It seems to have the functionality I need. It seems more stable than Twisted Words and is also written in C/C++, which is good. But I cant find any docs on libkopete (tech info and licensing info). Google search for 'libkopete', brings up dead links. Where can I get the docs?

morpheous 2010-06-07 21:46:47

There is a libkopete directory in Kopete's svn repo. http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete It looks like the documentation is built when you build Kopete. I suggest downloading Kopete, building it then copying the libkopete stuff out for your use.

caspin 2010-06-07 22:14:40

+1 A:

Twisted Words

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2010-06-07 17:54:40

MIT licence, if the OPer want to know..., which is more permissive if the restriction of the OPer are about wanting to make proprietary sw

ShinTakezou 2010-06-07 18:21:46

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