Hi, Am Freitag, den 26.09.2008, 10:52 +0200 schrieb Mikael Hallendal: > > Hello guys, > > > > We have had a set of problems that we are carrying around for some > > time like : > > > > * Copyright assignments, which is not the best way looking for > > the future of Evolution. It sucks and sort of limits contributions > > to Evolution and we wanted to drop it. > > * The current licensing incompatibility issues of Evolution > > with Samba4/libmapi (GPLv3). Evolution needs to link with libmapi/ > > samba4 for the new mapi based connector being developed for Exchange > > 2007. > > > > So here is the plan : > > > > * Drop Evolution copyright assignments and make it really easy > > to contribute to Evolution > > * Move Evolution licensing to "LGPL v2 and LGPL v3" to let us > > re-use the code more easily around the platform. This also moves us > > closer to Thunderbird's MPL/LGPL model.
Feel free to use my code under the terms of "LGPL 2.1 and (at your option) any later version". Regards, Sven > > We think this is good for Evolution and (of course) we continue to > > invest in Evolution. We are also working to ensure we have the > > rights to re-license all of the code. We will do the licensing/ > > header changes as we audit the code ownership situation. > > > > It would be really helpful if you can post a public/explicit mail > > with permissions to do it, or code pointers - if you think you wrote > > a piece of Evolution code & object. > > > > We are really excited about this and we feel this would really help > > Evolution a lot. We need your support now for making this change and > > to take Evolution to great heights. > > > > Thanks for your contributions and support. > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
