On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Patrick Ohly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 04:21 -0600, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
</snip> >> * 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. > > This should be "LGPL v2.1 or later or GPL v3 or later". As long as the > code is not linked against libmapi (which is GPL3 as Paul B. pointed > out), the resulting binary can be released as LGPL. Code can be moved > from main Evolution into libs and vice versa, which wouldn't be the case > if the code of the executable is only licensed under the GPL. > > As soon as source is compiled into an executable which is also linked > against libmapi, then the resulting work and its source has to be > distributed under GPL3. The license of the Evolution source allows that, > so you are fine. The shared libraries can remain under LGPL: GPL > binaries can use LGPL libraries. Could you consider talking with the samba guys to make libmapi LGPLv3? That would make things much easier, right? -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
