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Don't assign ownership of the CLIPBOARD to the IMHtml - it doesn't really own the data and then we don't have problems of overwriting what others put in the clipboard. Fixes #3616.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.