[Mageia-dev] skype4linux

[Juan Luis Baptiste]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Johnny A. Solbu <cooker at solbu.net> wrote:
> On Monday 23 April 2012 18:26, Sander Lepik wrote:
>> Why? Isn't the API public?
>
> The encryption and protocol needed to use it is prorpietary, hence it is non-free as it depends on Nonfree software to work.
>

Well, kopete has this functionality since a long time without any
additional plugin, you just configure a Skype account in kopete (of
course, skype has to be installed for this to work) and it will use
Skype's public API to launch it and control it. And kopete is on core
repo :D

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Juancho