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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
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