[Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives

[Sam Tuke]

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On 09/29/2012 03:13 PM, Dan MacDonald wrote:
> I've still yet to try Pidgin for vid conf yet but its on my todo
> list. Can anyone confirm you can vid call someone using Gmail from
> Pidgin without the pidgin user having to have Googles non-free talk
> plugin installed?

We had one video call pass using Pidgin to Google talk, so yes, it can
be done. What makes you say that the Google library is non-Free?
Libjingle, used by Google, is BSD licensed. Is there another Google
plugin I'm not aware of?

> I don't think any of the voip clients support JACK which is a
> shame.

I think you're right, and I agree!

Best,

Sam.

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