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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. 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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  2. 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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    1. 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.

  3. 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.