Feature changed by: jpxviii jpxviii (jpxviii) Feature #307813, revision 5 Title: Include skype on opensuse 11.3X openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important + openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed + Priority + Requester: Important Info Provider: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Requested by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Description: Include skype on a opensuse 11.3X Non-oss section (if correct) Sourced skype binary from http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/linux/choose/ Additional information from http://en.opensuse.org/Skype Please ensure skype installs in a opensuse 64 bit (x86_64) installation as well - From the link - it includes the following: You will need at least these packages before installing Skype. - install libqt4 libqt4-x11 libqt4-dbus-1 libsigc++2 - If you are running on a 64-bit platform, you will also need the *-32bit RPM packages, since Skype is a 32-bit application. install libqt4-32bit libqt4-dbus-1-32bit libqt4-x11- 32bit libsigc++2-32bit Thankyou Glenn Discussion: #1: Holger Dyroff (escubar) (2009-09-24 14:42:23) The challenge is the legal structure of this. Novell has not been able to aquire fair redistribution rights from Skype in the past. We tried several times, but till now the feedback was that Skype must be the exclusive VoIP solution in order for this to happen. When Skype is under new ownership we will try again but my hope is not high. We do not want to distribute Skype if this means to exclude all other open source implementations who do any form of VoIP. Have you looked at the license, do you see any change here from the past? #2: Markus K (kamikazow) (2009-11-15 22:45:04) (reply to #1) A "fetch skype" package (similar to fetchmsfonts) would be a nice solution. BTW: Skype has announced recently that the Linux client (likely only the GUI, not the actual communication libraries) will be open sourced in the future. It'll likely still not meet the standards for the FOSS repo, but hopefully at least the distribution restrictions will be loosened. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307813