[JDEV] Any license for Transports?

[Wes Meltzer]

I didn't actually think of that. I'm going to assume that they CAN, because
it's their service, and they're providing it to us free. Would it win them any
friends? Hardly... but I have the feeling that, given what they did to MSN, I'd
doubt that there's any way we could stop them. That is, short of trying to
reverse engineer the Oscar protocol, but -- well, bleaghh, TOC's totally
documented.

If AOL chooses to close its TOC server, there's absolutely nothing
we can do but wait for this new messaging standard that supposedly is being
worked towards by, among others, AOL and Microsoft. We'll just have to keep our
general attention kind of focused in that arena, since Mirabilis' protocol (and
obviously IRC, the other big transport everyone seems to want for Jabber, not
being subjected to the whims of a company per se) doesn't look to be in as much
danger...

|Wes Meltzer|
steelywes at hfs.dhs.org


On 23-Dec-99 Thomas Charron wrote:
> Quoting Wes Meltzer <steelywes at hfs.dhs.org>:
>> > Is it legal to have a server running with a transport to, say, AIM? Are
>> the
>> > transports relased under GPL?
>> > Can AOL break my transport whenever they want, I mean, using law?
>> However, what they can't do is change /your/ code. They can change their
>> own,
>> legally speaking, as much as they want, because as I recall there's no
>> guarantee given that the TOC server will remain in un-altered form. They
>> can
>> break your transport, yes, by changing the server end.
> 
>   I translated the question differently.  I had thought he was asking can
> they 
> issue an order stating that we legally can't connect to it using a transport.
> That's what I thought the 'Using Law' part meant..
> 
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Date: 23-Dec-99
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