From: "Geo." 

"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:403cc889{at}w3.nls.net...
> The code is horrible, isn't it.
>
> Anyway a glance through the Gaim web site shows that Cerulean Studios have
> made some recent contributions to the Yahoo implementation. So the status
of
> the code in gaim (albeit somewhat older) that appears to appear in
Trillian
> may be unclear. I certainly wouldn't jump to any conclusions.

from one of the lists I monitor:

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 02:02, Stefan Esser wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:23:44PM -0500, Luke Schierer wrote:
> > Jeff is absolutely correct. We've given them yahoo code, they have given
> > us yahoo code.  Sean Egan and one of their heads, a guy named Scott, are
> > on good terms.  no theft either way involved here.
> > luke
>
> There is actually one little problem... Eric Warmenhoven, the guy who
commited
> the yahoo code had no clue that this code is used by Trillian. Noone from
the
> GAIM team except himself has the right to dual license his code. And the
second
> thing is: take a close look on the commit messages:
>
> It a) references external persons
>
> rev 1.11: Valdis Kletnieks (sysphrog) suggested this fix.
> This seems really odd to me. Typical Yahoo.
>
> (The fix is actually only a "+1" fix)
>
>
> b) has mysterious comments...
>
> rev 1.12: this seems... i don't know.
>
> (sounds to me like... Hmmm got this code commited it, but don't know if or
why
> it is better)

Take a journey with me:

rev 1.41:
Sean Egan commits the new authorization code he just wrote.

rev 1.46:
Sean Egan adjusts the authorization code to use version 9 instead of 6.

rev 1.97 (yes, it's been that long since auth was touched): Sean Egan
changes some auth code around, and renames some stuff

rev 1.104:
Sean Egan modifies yahoo to send the username in lowercase, fixing auth.

rev 1.140:
Sean Egan changes the protocol version again from 0x0900 to 0x000b

rev 1.145:
Sean Egan commits drastically new auth code.  I believe this was written by
him after Trillian figured out the new authentication mechanism.

rev 1.160:
Sean Egan commits more yahoo auth fixes, presumably with help from Trillian

rev 1.162:
Sean Egan commits his "web auth" code, giving Gaim 2 ways to log into Yahoo


Now I'm sick of looking through commit logs, but I think you get the idea. 
Also, by this point, Trillian is sending us code, not vice-versa.  The only
code that was ever sent to them was the auth code, which Sean wrote.  Sean
is allowed to send that code to anyone he pleases.  As much of a stickler
as he is for the GPL, I really don't think he'd violate it so blatently and
publically.

Nathan

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