Hello,
Apparently I've been told that I have some code in evolution, despite having
no memory of it. Anyway, since I assume you guys know better than I do, I
guess I do.
So in that case, feel free to relicense any of my code as outlined below.
George
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.
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