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> 18 sep 2013 kl. 23:23 skrev "Ludovic Marcotte" <[email protected]>: > > Hello, > > We've been pretty silent when it came to Active Sync support in SOGo for > multiple reasons. > > First of all, there are licensing implications with Microsoft Active Sync. > Moreover, there's a plethora of Active Sync implementations out there. We > also wanted to see how vendors would adopt CalDAV/CardDAV, how down the drain > Funambol would go and the market's impact of the new Windows/Blackberry > phones. > > After digesting all the above for a few weeks, we came to the conclusion we > should most likely add Active Sync support to SOGo. > > Over the past few days, I've been (and still are) in contact with an IP > Licensing person at Microsoft. We had interesting discussions which led us to > believe we could: > create an Active Sync bundle in SOGo for synchronization > license it under a free but non-GPL (BSD, for example) > 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. > > 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. > > Evidently, if we start working on Active Sync support in SOGo, we'll > definitively drop Funambol support - which is probably even more exciting > then adding Active Sync support. > > Thanks! > -- > Ludovic Marcotte > [email protected] :: +1.514.755.3630 :: http://inverse.ca > Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (http://sogo.nu) and PacketFence > (http://packetfence.org) -- [email protected] https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
