Ludovic Marcotte <[email protected]>
writes:

> 1. create an Active Sync bundle in SOGo for synchronization
> 2. license it under a free but non-GPL (BSD, for example)
> 3. distribute it for free
>
> We can't use the GPL because of patents
> restrictions. Z-Push/OPush/Synchotron are all using patented
> technologies without a license and Microsoft currently does not
> license to GPL implementations - so using these is not an option.

Don't forget that software patents are invalid in big parts of the
world, so these technologies are not infringing anything there.

> Since the addition of Active Sync support in SOGo would be a
> server-side implementation, there would be a per-mailbox fee to use
> it. That fee, would have to be paid to Microsoft directly. On our end,
> everything would be free of use.

Again, that fee would only apply where software patents are valid, which
is great news for European users like me :-)

Thanks a lot for this move. With Active Sync and Openchange, Sogo will
become a monster of an alternative solution to the omnipresent solution
«That I Will Not Name» :-)

Thanks,
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Rémi

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