On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:37:39AM +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
Hi Sam,
Not sure if you saw the attached; but it'd be great to get your
approval here; that is if you approve :-) could you mail the
evolution-hackers list if so ?
Wow, here's a blast from the past... I last committed Evolution code
in maybe 2001? 2002?
At any rate, I have no objections to the proposal below, so
Approved-by: Sam Creasey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That being said, IIRC I signed a copyright assignment for my Evolution
contributions back when I was working on it (I even managed to collect
my $1 after a fashion), so I'm not sure what rights/responsibilities I
would still retain as regards that code.
I might have a copy of the physical paper somewhere, it was also
signed by my employer and I would have kept that sort of thing for
legal purposes... Or I might have chucked when that company went
under...
-- Sam
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:21:56 -0600
From: Srinivasa Ragavan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], evolution-hackers@gnome.org
Subject: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution: Taking forward...
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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