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

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

Hi,

Michael notified me that I actually had code in Evolution (since  
portions of GAL was now in the Evo code base). That's code I wrote in  
my spare time though I attached the companies name in the copyright  
out of habit.

I'm fine with relicensing that code and assign the copyright over.

Cheers,
  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.
>
> 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.

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Mikael Hallendal
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