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.
> > _______________________________________________
> > desktop-devel-list mailing list
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
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