Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution: Taking forward...
Lucian Langa <[email protected]> Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:09:29 +0300
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.desktop,gmane.comp.gnome.evolution.devel |
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| Message-ID | <1220591369.3498.320.camel@mayday> |
I was kindly asked for this: Permission granted for any pieces of code I've produced. Lucian Langa. > > 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. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list