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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)."

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  1. Componentisation and GPL by tod_miller · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If I write an application that, for instance, sends faxes. You could use a closed source driver for this, or you could use a GPL'd driver for this.

    Right? Now, if I wrote a game, that wanted to use this GPL jive, what level of abstraction would allow me to use this (ditribute is as a 'suggested' compatible chat server) wihtou GPL'ing my own code?

    This is more of a query that has laid dormant in my mind, now I see this (and that open source voice recognition) and I think more abou tit. Not that I do not want to relewase the source of my own app - just wondering.

    I will look at this. (Jive software I heard about them in a negative context a while back, or was that Jive forums? blast)

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  2. Hmmm, ejabberd you say.... by VasiliTerkin · · Score: 2, Interesting
    One thing that stops me from immediately jumping onto Jive jabber server is the seemingly absent internalisation support.

    I glanced at ejabberd recently and was initially spooked by the choice of the language - Erlang. Thought it was some obscure toaster programming language. Turns out its from Erricsson, opensourced, and designed for fault tolerance and things like routers and servers.

    Can someone point to a good review of the most common, free Jabber servers? (Possibly for Windows: Jabberd 1.4.x; Erlang; some Java ones, now including the Jive)

    The Jabber.org's server features page is a good start, but says nothing of reliability and general feel.