Re: [Evolution] Bynari's InsightConnector

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 09:16, Brian wrote:
> My apologies if this has already been discussed, but I didn't see it so
> here goes.  What's the deal with this Evolution plug-in (that appears to
> be a competing product for Ximian Connector) that Bynari is getting
> ready to release?  The one mentioned at ...
>
> http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-06-003-26-PR-SV-SW
>
> They've not decided on a license, but one would have to think it'd be a
> closed-source, proprietary plugin and that would be a no-no for a
> non-Ximian entity to do, right?

It would be *possible* to write an almost-entirely-closed-source plugin
for Evolution, using the CORBA interfaces and such. But you would have
to do a huge amount of work since almost all of the utility libraries
inside the evolution source tree (libpas, libpcs, libebook, libeutil,
libeshell, etc) are GPL, not LGPL.

-- Dan