I have been mailed privately about this: Permission granted for any pieces of code I have produced.
Djihed On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Paolo Borelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been told to send this one also to the mailing list, so here it > goes. > > > Ciao > Paolo > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Paolo Borelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Srinivasa Ragavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:11:27 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Fwd: Evolution: Taking forward...] > On ven, 2008-09-12 at 21:41 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: >> Hey Paolo, >> >> As you are aware, we are in the process of re-licensing(See the attached >> mail), we are >> now contacting all the code committers for explicit permission mails. We >> have completed >> contacting almost 85% of the people. You have also committed some amount of >> code for >> Evolution. Can you approve the license change for the code you wrote? >> >> Looking forward for much more contributions from you :-) >> > > I think I only committed *after* you announced the relicensing :-) > > That said, sure, I give permission to relicense any contribution I made. > > Paolo > >> -Srini. >> >> >> Messaggio email attachment, "Forwarded message - Evolution: Taking >> forward..." >> > -------- Forwarded Message -------- >> > From: Srinivasa Ragavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], evolution-hackers@gnome.org >> > Subject: Evolution: Taking forward... >> > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:21:56 -0600 >> > >> > 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. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > desktop-devel-list mailing list >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > > _______________________________________________ > 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