(cc'ing everybody mentioned in the mailing) hi roozbeh, thanks for your posting, however, nothing of the code you mentioned in your mail below has become part of the evolution codebase (you knew that already, i guess :-). On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 14:11 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > I was browsing through the archives and I came through an email by Amir > Hossein payberah: > > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2004- > August/004129.html > > The attached code, packed in a calendar.tar.bz2 is a clear infringement > of work partially copyrighted by me and released under GNU LGPL. that's a question to amir, but not for the evolution hackers. :-) > I would very much appreciate it if the message could be removed from the > archives. ...hmm. there can always be infringements of lgpl or gpl. i'd recommend to post follow-ups to those postings (i very much dislike the idea of removing messages from an archive). > Also, I would love to ask for special care be taken when new > contributors not already known in the community send patches for > alternate calendar support to this list or evolution-patches. They may > be infringing a few other people's copyrights at the same time. it wasn't a patch since the posted tar.gz file did not integrate into the evolution codebase (i'd nearly say: the patch had nothing to do with evolution at all). evolution patches have to be changes on the current code (means: diff files). people submitting/contributing code to evolution have to send the "novell copyright assingment agreement for open source projects" to novell, also including a paragraph stating that one owns the copyright of one's contributed code. > I am specially worried about a second message, from a certain Ali > Shameli: > > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2005- > February/005173.html > > The part that claims that "We wrote a lightweight library to use multi > calendaring in systems like Evolution." is very possibly about the code > posted to the website "libmcal.org", which appears to be almost the same > stuff, with the same copyright problems. (See the file "src/date.c" in > <http://libmcal.org/download/ver0.5/libmcal-0.5.tar.gz>.) cheers, andre note: i am not a developer or employee of novell. this is only my opinion(TM). -- mailto:ak-47 gmx net | failed! http://www.iomc.de
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part