On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 16:31 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:21 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: > > ...hmm. there can always be infringements of lgpl or gpl. i'd recommend > > to post follow-ups to those postings > > My first email is really a follow-up to the first email, header-wise. > > > (i very much dislike the idea of > > removing messages from an archive). > > But what if they are copyright infringements?
I have no personal opinion about this. but realise that it's already public, so I'm not sure it makes any real difference or not at this point. > > > people submitting/contributing code to evolution have to send the > > "novell copyright assingment agreement for open source projects" to > > novell, also including a paragraph stating that one owns the copyright > > of one's contributed code. > > What if they lie in that? Will Novell/evolution team go and believe > them? what other choice do we have? if we can't believe them then we could never accept patches. > > I thought I would post the note to make sure people know that there is a > situation here, so: Evolution guys! Think twice before accepting code > from these people, even if they sign something. They may send you work > copyrighted by others and get you into trouble. afaik, if they sign, then our butts are protected legally. Jeff _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
