Sometime Today, DRR cobbled together some glyphs to say:
Why the split between the two? IMHO it would be much better to have a single free implementation of the protocol. So many different implementations with some feature here and some there is heavily self-defeating for the community.
libyahoo2 is a library. gaim is an application. IME, apps normally use libraries to achieve their functionality. You're free to merge gaim's functionality into libyahoo2 and then try to sell it as a comprehensive library.
Philip