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For any Windows Phone 7 (WP7) developer that gets the grand idea to port Mangler and/or libventrilo3 over to WP7, please be aware that you will be in violation of the GPLv3 as well as Microsoft’s WP7 App Store terms of service if you attempt to distribute this through the Microsoft App Store.

Just to be incredibly clear:

You cannot write a Ventrilo application for WP7 using Mangler’s libventrilo3 library with plans to release this software on Microsoft’s App Store. When we find this software published, we will have it removed.

Apple has obfuscated the fact that the GPLv3 is not compatible with their developer terms of service. Microsoft has explicitly stated that this license is not compatible.

If you want to publish an open source version of a Ventrilo client using our code base and distribute it outside of the Microsoft App Store, that would be perfectly acceptable (the same is true for Apple devices, by the way) as long as it conforms to the terms of the GPLv3 under which both Mangler and libventrilo3 are licensed.

Mangler for Android 1.0alpha9 (hopefully) gives a ton of new features and bug fixes:

• Fixed a bunch of force closes that would have been seemingly random to users
• Fixed issues with the user tab not updating properly (and don’t crash when clicking on a user)
• Saved volumes should work again
• The user tab is actually somewhat useful now (more changes coming on this)
• Added ability to send pages
• Current ping is displayed in the title bar
• Comments are now viewable on the user tab
• Added ability to mute users and modified the volume controls slightly
• Admin functionality added:
  • Kick users
  • Ban users
  • Move users to your channel
  • Globally mute users