Gpgme license

[Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 01:43:12PM -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 03:32, Werner Koch wrote:
> > On 11 Jun 2002 02:15:27 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast said:
> > 
> > > First, I assume that Gpgme is GPL?
> > 
> > Sure.
> > 
> > > Would you be willing to change the license to LGPL? I'd be very
> > 
> > No, definitely not.  We did this for Libgcrypt but GPGME is a
> > different thing and the general rule applies:
> > 
> >     Please note that in many cases it is better for a library to be
> >     licensed under the GPL, so that it provides an advantage for free
> >     software projects.  The Lesser GPL is so named because it does
> >     less to protect the freedom of the users of the code that it
> >     covers.  See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html for
> >     more explanation.
> 
> disappointing, but I understand
> 
> > 
> > > Unfortunately, our Exchange Connector product is not GPL (though
> > > Evolution itself is) and so I don't think we'd be able to use Gpgme
> > 
> > Huh?  You link you proprietary Exchange Connector with the GPLed Evo?
> > 

   Then, will evolution use gpgme? I think that it would be great. I
  don't understand what's the problem with the Exchange Connector, but
  I'm not aware on how it works (isn't it a component?)

   I'd glad to see evolution using gpgme.

    Regards
     
     Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
       jsogo at debian.org
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