Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution: Taking forward...

2008-07-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Paul, On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 12:46 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > Once you start accepting a significant amount of code without copyright > assignment, it will be difficult to the point of impossibility to change > the license again. Yes. Hence (in part) the choice of a more liberal / lesse

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution: Taking forward...

2008-07-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Paul, On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 15:30 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: > > * Move Evolution licensing to "LGPL v2 and LGPL v3" to let us re-use > > the code more easily around the platform. > > Did you mean LGPLv2 _or_ LGPLv3 here? Yes; it's dual licensed - which gives people rather a choice of

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution: Taking forward...

2008-07-11 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 04:21 -0600, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > 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 > Evolutio

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution: Taking forward...

2008-07-11 Thread Paul Smith
> * Move Evolution licensing to "LGPL v2 and LGPL v3" to let us re-use > the code more easily around the platform. I'm a little concerned with this plan in conjunction with the "getting rid of copyright assignment" plan. Once you start accepting a significant amount of code without copyright ass

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution: Taking forward...

2008-07-11 Thread Paul Bolle
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 04:21 -0600, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > * 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. [...] > * Move Evolution lic

[Evolution-hackers] Evolution: Taking forward...

2008-07-11 Thread Srinivasa Ragavan
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