On 09/19/13 09:10, Rémi Letot wrote: > Ludovic Marcotte <[email protected]> writes: >> 1. create an Active Sync bundle in SOGo for synchronization >> 2. license it under a free but non-GPL (BSD, for example) >> 3. distribute it for free >> >> We can't use the GPL because of patents >> restrictions. Z-Push/OPush/Synchotron are all using patented >> technologies without a license and Microsoft currently does not >> license to GPL implementations - so using these is not an option. > > Don't forget that software patents are invalid in big parts of the > world, so these technologies are not infringing anything there.
I know I'm on the fringe of this, but this looks a bit worrying. I've three questions: Is that only true as long as Inverse are careful not to derive anything from Microsoft-copyrighted works? Could something semi-detached Funambol-like be done instead of moving SOGo away from the GPL? Would Inverse consider devoting similar resources to helping the Caldav and Carddav adapter developers as being used helping Microsoft? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ -- [email protected] https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
