OpenAIM and protocolfreedom

[Luke Schierer]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 03:19:43PM -0700, Sean Egan wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I had a phone call with Karen from softwarefreedom.org today, and she
> confirmed that the licensing attached to the OpenAIM stuff is not
> GPL-compatible, and it's best to leave it ignored. We also talked
> about protocolfreedom.org, and whether that could apply to MSN, and
> she said that after protocofreedom.org was formed, Microsoft
> publically released their documentation for everything covered by it,
> mostly obsoleting protocolfreedom.  She said she thought MSN messenger
> might be covered and pointed me at
> http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/intellectualproperty/protocols/mcpp.mspx
> 
> I haven't looked at it yet, but I suspect they may have released docs
> for whatever their internal SIP-like thing is called, but not MSN
> Messenger (or whatever MSN is called these days)
> 
> -s.

Thanks for following up on this Sean.

luke