> The bad news is about the license. I'm not sure we can bundle and use > this lib without adding a new clause in the current GPL licence. This > would be sad because this would mean contacting all the contributors > requesting them to agree with the new clause. This was previously done > by Sebastian for adding the OpenSSL clause and this is a real work. > > There are currently 109 contributors in `git shortlog -ns`. > > I'm cc'ing both Ilias and Sebatian because the issue raised about the > OpenSSL was done by Debian. They might have hints for us and the AS-IS > licence might be compatible with the GPL. I don't know.
I think we can include MIT licensed software inside GPL one. Wikipedia[1] says that it is compatible. I don not know about the clause. > I'm not sure we can safely abandon Python 2. I'm not concerned by Python > 2 compatibility myself but I wonder some users will complain. I would > not decide to abandon Python 2 without polling our users first. IOW, > this means communicating about that on twitter, this mailing list, the > blog, create an issue and see if we have complaints in a reasonable > amount of time. There will be always a person that want Python2 support and if it is not a big deal to support both version we should not abandon those people. > Also, I wonder some users might be tempted to support a fork for Python > 2. This would mean maintaining yet another software and I'm definetly > not going to do this job myself. We could invite a maintainer to the > team for this purpose, though. > To be clear, I'm not opposed to a migration to Python 3 only. I'd even > say that time has come. Still, we can't decide to do this without > carefully requesting the users and see if the complaints are marginal > enough. For now, I would rather support Python2 and Python3. There are still distributions that ships only Python2. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - http://offlineimap.org
