Re: [Evolution-hackers] winmail.dat/TNEF streams

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 18:04, Randall Hand wrote:
> The ytnef C Library is GPL, but you should be able to dynamically link
> to it with no problems.

The problem is that an Evolution linked with ytnef then wouldn't be able
to use Connector without violating ytnef's license.

However, if it's done the Bonobo way it can be worked around by making
the component out-of-proc, in which case only the component's process
would link to ytnef, and there would be no problem.

(Alternatively, if ytnef's code became part of Evolution you could
assign the copyright to us, and then the linking wouldn't be a problem
in that case either...)

> As for it being rare, I still see hundreds of these.  

I think it would indeed be a great feature to have!

-- Ettore