Permission granted to relicence my code (committed as pwithnall svn gnome org or philip tecnocode co uk). Thanks, Philip On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 04:21 -0600, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > 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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