Am 11.07.2008 um 13:21 schrieb 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 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.
Hi,
I'm ok with relicensing all the code I have contributed to evolution
and evolution-data-server as LGPL v2.
Br,
Jörgen
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