-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
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. You're free to convert the license to my Bogofilter plugin code, as well as any other patches I've committed to Evolution, to LGPL v2 or v3. I appreciate your efforts. Mikhail Zabaluev -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI8zUlITXggnds20gRAgkDAJ9NMGV46ezPc3HeRNEG4eT3aFi7MQCfTbAc wqxFJaCD4NJU/szKbmyuASw= =KaCA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
