I just wanted to chime in and say AWESOME!!! :-) It is my hope that now that Evolution no longer requires assignment, that we'll see more developers get involved with improving it - who knows, maybe someone will even contribute an uber IMAP implementation? :-)
Jeff (retired Evolution hacker) On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 04:21 -0600, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > 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. > > 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. > > -Srini. > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-hackers mailing list > Evolution-hackers@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
