[horde] ActiveSync licensing

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Please don't top post and keep discussion on the mailing list. Thanks!

Quoting Ricardo Buchalla Auada <rauada at gmail.com>:

> Michael, thank you very much for your cooperation on this.
>
> It really seems a complicated issue. About DAV, is there any controversies
> about licensing, or is it a total open and free protocol ?

DAV is an open/free protocol.

> Still about ActiveSync in Horde, wouldn´t it be interesting to have a
> possibility to allow or disallow a user to use it, based on contract.
>
> What I mean is: if a license is necessary, we should be able to permit or
> not permit a user to use it.
>
> As long as I know, we can enable or disable ActiverSync as a whole, but
> with no granularity.

This is done via the administrative permissions system.

Administration->Permissions->{horde}->{activesync}


>
> Best regards,
>
> Ricardo Auada
>
> 2017-01-09 14:52 GMT-02:00 Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>
>>
>> Quoting Ricardo Buchalla Auada <rauada at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi there !
>>>
>>> I have tried to understand about the protocol ActiveSync licencing model.
>>>
>>> But the only information so far I have found is an email from Jan
>>> Schneider
>>> explaining that if the server is hosted in Germany, there would have no
>>> need for licensing ...
>>>
>>> https://lists.horde.org/archives/horde/Week-of-Mon-20120514/044258.html
>>>
>>> Can anyone bring some more light over this issue ?
>>>
>>
>> This is a complicated issue. As I have come to understand it, as the
>> developers of a FOSS project that implements the protocol we are generally
>> safe from the need for a license on the patent. As the owner of a server
>> that installs the code provides this service to others, you may be required
>> to license the patent. Another FOSS project, Z-Push (who is based in the EU
>> and whose code we forked many years ago to base our ActiveSync library on)
>> takes the view that a license is not required for installing the server
>> software. You can Google for some of the discussions around that if you
>> desire.
>>
>> In the US you are technically required to license the patent if you are
>> the owner of a server providing the protocol. In the EU I'm not sure (I am
>> based in the US and unfamiliar with European patent issues). I do know that
>> there have been licensing actions regarding EAS in the EU involving large
>> companies. Again, you can search for the particulars on this.
>>
>> Additionally, it's hard to come by authoritative information without
>> speaking directly to MS since MS requires licensees to sign an NDA,
>> preventing them from discussing the details. Your best bet to be 100% safe
>> is to inquire with MS directly.
>>
>> Standard disclaimer applies: I am not a lawyer nor have I
>> contacted/received information from Microsoft regarding this issue. This is
>> simply MY understanding of the current status of the issue.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>>
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>
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