Hi Christian, On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 15:16 +0200, Christian Persch wrote: > Hi; > > The commit > [http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/evolution?limit_changes=0&view=revision&revision=36116] > introduced a new copyright header for evolution/widgets/misc/e-spinner.[ch] > [http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/evolution/trunk/widgets/misc/e-spinner.c?limit_changes=0&r1=36116&r2=36115&pathrev=36116] > above the old copyright header, in which it claims the code is > a) now licensed under LGPL 2 and LGPL 3, and > b) now "Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Novell, Inc. (www.novell.com)". > > Both of these claims are false. > > e-spinner.[ch] is derived from ephy-spinner.[ch] from Epiphany, and I > hold the copyright on much of the code in it. It is licensed under the > terms of the GPL 2+. As you can see from e-spinner.c's svn history > [http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/evolution/trunk/widgets/misc/e-spinner.c?view=log], > this file was first checked into evolution in 2007, at which time it was > almost identical to ephy-spinner except for the rename of the namespace from > "ephy" to "e". See the attached diff from ephy-spinner to today's e-spinner > after reversal of that rename to observe that the cumulative changes are > trivial (not to mention partially bogus), and even if they might justify a > "2007-2008" novell copyright they certainly do not justify putting the novell > copyright notice above all other copyright holders and to even put a claim to > be an "Author" of it! > > Most importantly, I was not asked for permission to re-license this code > to the LGPL 2 + LGPL 3; nor have I given such permission. >
As there are many committers in Evolution sources, we sent out a common mail to the desktop-devel and evolution-hackers mailing lists. Please refer : http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-July/msg00065.html Also, I have been blogging about the license changes in planet gnome as well, every time I make a change. http://psankar.blogspot.com/ > Please revert this unauthorised license change immediately. I request you to wait till wednesday (10th September) , within which I will be able to do some analysis and get back to you. We will revert to the old state, if we cannot resolve the issue by then. > > Christian > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers -- Sankar _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
