Re: PROPOSAL: Evolution for GNOME 2.8

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 17:18, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Havoc Pennington">
> 
> > What I'd worry about more is the asymmetric assignment situation for say
> > OO.org (and I think but I'm not sure for Evolution), where one company has
> > the exclusive right to create proprietary versions or link in proprietary
> > code. Basically we're talking about a GPL loophole.
> 
> > I do support including Evolution in 2.8, however to the extent I'd worry
> > about copyright assignment this is the issue I would raise.
> 
> Is that really a huge problem for the community in general, with Evolution?
> 

Only the community can answer that, I don't know. I'm not even sure what
the Evo copyright assignment says (though I think Red Hat has signed
it).

It really comes down to people's personal feelings about free software
and how they want their code to be used.

Havoc