I've been told to send this one also to the mailing list, so here it
goes.
Ciao
Paolo
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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.
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