Overview

This is a list of anyone who we think may be violation the license of any part of our project, and the status of the violation. The license is pretty much always the GPL, but could potentially be something else.

Being listed here does not necessarily mean the software in question is a problem--just that someone thinks it should be investigated. Please do not send impolite emails to the creators of software listed here. If you're a copyright holder of code that is a part of our project, you may email someone and ask for clarification or point out violations and request that they be fixed. Please be civil.

Kaneva

Description	Gaming service, uses libpurple and Pidgin for IM
Status	Their license is not GPL-compliant and they load pidgin.dll dynamically at runtime. Received contact to say that they plan on releasing source before the end of Aug 2011
Contacted	Yes

Raptr

Description	Gaming service, uses libpurple for IM
Status	Contacted to request source. Provided link to legally dubious ​Heliotrope libpurple bridge
Contacted	Yes

MyTribe

Description	Uses libpurple for IM
Status	MyTribe? will no longer be available after 31st August 2011 as per the announcement at ​http://www.mytribe.com/
Contacted	Yes

Voxox

Description	Voice service using libpurple for IM
Status	Requesting source code is a 'feature request' ​http://twitter.com/voxox/status/9836343137 and is something for customer service to deal with ​http://voxox.uservoice.com/forums/31101-beta/suggestions/459881-release-voxox-source-code-as-part-of-gpl-requireme?ref=title :s It's now possible to download their source: ​http://www.voxox.com/index/help/knowledge-base/how-can-i-obtain-the-voxox-source-code/
Contacted	Yes

Paltalk

(this information is REALLY old and probably out of date)

Description	Uses Gaim PRPLs to connect to IM networks. They call it "interop."
Status	Do they need to distribute a GPL LICENSE file with their interop stuff? Also questionable how they link to Gaim's code? And if the code has been modified, need to offer source code download?
Contacted	No

messengercity.com

(this information is REALLY old and possibly out of date)

Description	Offer a downloadable IM client based on Pidgin.
Status	They didn't used to offer source code download. Do they now?
Contacted	?

​http://opensource.palm.com/packages.html

Description	IM client for Palm Pre?
Status	No known problems, but someone should probably glance through their web site
Contacted	No

MeBeam Plugin

Description	Voice/video chat plugin
Status	No license specified, included, or otherwise mentioned. No source available.
Contacted	A user reports that he has attempted to contact MeBeam, but has not received a response.