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

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

I've been told to send this one also to the mailing list, so here it
goes.


Ciao
	Paolo

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• From: Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>
• To: Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>
• Subject: Re: [Fwd: Evolution: Taking forward...]
• Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:11:27 +0200

On ven, 2008-09-12 at 21:41 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> Hey Paolo,
> 
> As you are aware, we are in the process of re-licensing(See the attached mail), we are
> now contacting all the code committers for explicit permission mails. We have completed
> contacting almost 85% of the people. You have also committed some amount of code for 
> Evolution. Can you approve the license change for the code you wrote?
> 
> Looking forward for much more contributions from you :-)
> 

I think I only committed *after* you announced the relicensing :-)

That said, sure, I give permission to relicense any contribution I made.

Paolo

> -Srini.
> 
> 
> Messaggio email attachment, "Forwarded message - Evolution: Taking
> forward..."
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>
> > To: desktop-devel-list gnome org, evolution-hackers gnome org
> > Subject: Evolution: Taking forward...
> > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:21:56 -0600
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > -Srini.
> > _______________________________________________
> > desktop-devel-list mailing list
> > desktop-devel-list gnome org
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

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