On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 11:28 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote: > There are two major points to this discussion, and I'd like to tentatively > put my foot down on at least one of them (but probably both), because there > is a lot of really off-the-planet discussion going on here. Or too much trusting, or bad intentions. I'm sorry for being so blunt. > Evolution Specific > ================== > > The first issue is whether we accept copyright assignment for Evolution (in > particular) as an officially blessed member of the Desktop release. So far, > the major concern here is that Novell (and previously, Ximian) reserves the > right to make the software available under other (non-Free) licensing terms. > Quoting from the copyright assignment agreement: > > 5. Novell will make the Assigned Contributions available under an > agreement approved by the OSI (Open Source Initiative), and may also make > the Assigned Contributions available under other license terms. > > That means that external contributions WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE UNDER A FREE > LICENSE. It doesn't say "in perpetuity", which is interesting, and I'd have > to ask a lawyer what that implies. No it doesn't. You're lying "in our faces" because I don't believe an australian makes such a bad english interpretation. It's supposed to be GPL, not GPL, or anything else. > If any individual has a moral objection to giving Novell the right to make > the software available under non-Free licenses then that person is FREE TO > NOT SIGN THE AGREEMENT. End of story. At no time will contributions be > unavailable under a Free license, Novell has specifically called that out in > their agreement. This is not complicated at all. So you consider acceptable to include as an official module one with a licensing scheme created with the purpose of circunventing the GPL? I think this has to change. That part must go or suffer the punishment of not being included. This is my opinion. I would love to see evolution inside GNOME, but not this way. Not at any cost. Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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