[Kroupware] SourceXtreme, Inc MAPI toolkit

[ian reinhart geiser]

Bernhard Reiter said:
> On Tuesday 09 March 2004 19:42, ian reinhart geiser wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>    In case people are interested we posted a snapshot of our GPL MAPI
>> toolkit at:
>> 	http://www.sourcextreme.com/projects/outlook/mapi
>
> Thanks for note!
> It is great that we get more Free Software.
>
We are already eyeing up KTNEF for using this library.  Since we have an
OO interface to the property lists we can support things like RTF mail,
calender, todo, and almost any non-COM object inside of the winmail.dat
file :)

>>    This is basicly most of the common code we have been pulling out of
>> our
>> MAPI transport provider and message store.  THIS CODE HAS BEEN SCRUBBED
>> OF ALL SHARED SOURCE AND ANY OTHER QUESTIONABLE EXAMPLE CODE.  This API
>> is completely safe to link to with an Open Source license compatible
>> with the GPL.  We are offering a commercial license to interested
>> commercial parties but our main goal is help build TNEF parsers and
>> other GPL tools that need to interact with MAPI.
>
> You probably mean a "proprietary" license,
> the GNU GPL does not forbit you to make money.
>
> I have a question about the licensing:
> This being GNU GPL means that it cannot be linked against the KDE
> components that demand the QT exception.
> Wouldn't using the LGPL help to spread and improve this library?
We are currently experimenting with licensing.  We have a client
interested in this lib on a NON GPL project under windows.  Because this
library can be portable to non windows and we want to get this used in
apps like KTNEF we decided to go with GPL, with a commercial option.  Like
I said though we are still trying to resolve license issues because there
is currenly more interest on win32 than linux...  and win32 is helping
fund the development of the rest of the code that will soon follow this.  
We may look at the Qt exception because we have some Qt bindings to this
toolkit in the pipe so its possible we may need to monkey arround some
more there...

There are a few other options and we are willing to explore them based on
the response.  Lucky since this is software and not hardware its easy to
change =)

Cheers
   -ian reinhart geiser




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