Re: [Evolution] Bynari's InsightConnector

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

So long as you didn't want to do email, since camel doesn't use a corba
interface.

Since you need to include the camel headers (which are GPL), and link
with camel and utility libraries, it wouldn't be possible to get past
the GPL.

Therefore, any camel plugin (not written by Ximian) will have to be
released as source.

BTW Shawn, that was very bad form, hiding behind an anonymous email
address asking for programming advice and arguing about the GPL
requirements.  Particularly since your company seems to hate Ximian so
much.


On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 00:01, Dan Winship wrote:
> 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
>
>
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