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

[Sven Herzberg <herzi gnome-de org>]

Hi,

Am Freitag, den 26.09.2008, 10:52 +0200 schrieb Mikael Hallendal:
> > 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.

Feel free to use my code under the terms of "LGPL 2.1 and (at your
option) any later version".

Regards,
  Sven

> > 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.
>