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

["Djihed Afifi" <djihedlists googlemail com>]

I have been mailed privately about this:

Permission granted for any pieces of code I have produced.


Djihed



On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com> wrote:
> I've been told to send this one also to the mailing list, so here it
> goes.
>
>
> Ciao
>        Paolo
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>
> To: Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:11:27 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Evolution: Taking forward...]
> 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.
>> > _______________________________________________
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