Re: Evolution copyright assignment: Storm in a teacup

[Carlos Morgado <chbm gnome org>]

On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 01:25:48, Danilo Šegan wrote:


> Today at 0:55, Rob Adams wrote:
>
> > Note that not including Evolution probably won't do much to reduce
> > Evolution's deployment; practically everyone will continue to use it.
> > Ximian can continue the proprietary/GPL hybrid business model, the Gnome
> > project has retained a core freedom, and an excellent piece of free
> > software can continue to thrive.
>
> I disagree slightly here.  Not including Evolution (which means
> evolution-data-server as well) into core desktop will have
> significant consequences for Gnome itself (not Evolution): Gnome
> platform will be unable to offer such functionality like panel applets
> to search through your contacts/calendar, etc.  In short, we lose the
> chance to *integrate* well.

I don't see the issue. If Novell wants to add that functionality to Evo  
excelent, otherwise GNOME doesn't need to pretend Evo is the only MUA/PIM  
ever had/has/will have.
In fact, considering the problem at hand, making GNOME Desktop depend on Evo  
is a liability.

(disclosure: I'm a Balsa maintainer, you don't need to bring that up on a  
reply)

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