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Jive Software To Open Source Its Jabber Server

Posted by timothy on from the now-you-can-jibber dept.

fernique writes "Jive Software, a leading provider of knowledge-based support software, announced today that it will license its Jive Messenger application under the GPL Open Source license. Jive Messenger, based on the open IETF standard XMPP protocol, is a Java-based server for comprehensive group chat and instant messaging (IM)."

4 of 15 comments (clear)

  1. Not a standard ... yet by dago · · Score: 3, Informative

    Btw, XMPP isn't a standard yet, just a draft and soon to be published RFC.

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    1. Re:Not a standard ... yet by fernique · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yeah, its work is still in progress. And in addition to XMPP proto there are JEPS (Jabber Enhancement Proposals), which update more frequently than core.

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      igor
  2. Re:Componentisation and GPL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's cool as long as you're not linking with GPL'ed code. (You can generally link with LGPL'd libs if you don't modify them).

  3. Re:Componentisation and GPL by fuzzbrain · · Score: 2, Informative

    My understanding is that if you were to write an external component that communicated with the server over tcp/ip then it doesn't matter what license that component uses, even if the server itself is gpl. But if you want to write a module that integrates with the server internally then you do need to worry about licenses...

    Jive software are the same people who put out the smack xmpp java library which is imho very well written, so I suspect that the server is also quite good.

    It's good to have another opensource jabber server as I think jabberd2 has been a bit of a disappointment. I doubt it will be as good as ejabberd though.