Re: Evolution: Taking forward...

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le vendredi 11 juillet 2008 à 04:21 -0600, Srinivasa Ragavan a écrit :
> 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.

I give permission to relicense code written by me (Frederic Crozat) or
any Mandriva / MandrakeSoft / Conectiva / Edge-IT / Linbox employee
(done during their working time, ie submitted with a "pro" email
address) to "LGPL v2 and LGPL v3".

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
Mandriva