Hello folks
As of January 2012 Roundcube will be licensed under the GNU General
Public License (GPL) Version 3 or later (with exceptions for skins &
plugins) while it was licensed under GPL (v2) before that change.
Actually the license situation wasn't absolutely clear before because
some parts of the Roundcube code didn't specify a version number of
the GPL while others did. Those parts not specifying a version number
could, according to the GPL license text, be considered as either
version 2 or any later version.
*Clarification and Preparation for the Future*
Because of the incorporated numerous other components, the only
options for licenses are in the GNU GPL family, namely GNU GPLv2, GNU
GPLv3, GNU AGPLv3.
In order to become license compatible with some of the newer
technologies we would like to be able to use and to be well prepared
for future development and integration we decided to officially change
to GNU GPL "version 3 or any later version".
Together with the change to GPLv3+ we also added the following
exception to the Roundcube license agreement which explicitly excludes
skins & plugins from the terms of the GPL:
" This file forms part of the Roundcube Webmail Software for which the
following exception is added: Plug-ins and Skins which merely make
function calls to the Roundcube Webmail Software, and for that purpose
include it by reference shall not be considered modifications of the
software.
If you wish to use this file in another project or create a modified
version that will not be part of the Roundcube Webmail Software, you
may remove the exception above and use this source code under the
original version of the license. "
This shall give a maximum flexibility to skin designers and plugin
developers to choose any other license for their work or even to
create commercial or proprietary components without being forced to
publish them according to the strong copy-left requirements of the
GPL.
The original proposal and the following discussion about this license
clarification can be read in our mailing list archive:
http://lists.roundcube.net/mail-archive/dev/2011-11/0000040.html
*Request for Agreement*
Because the copyright in Roundcube is not consolidated, making these
updates requires the agreement of all contributors to Roundcube.
So if you have in the past contributed to Roundcube, we would very
much like to ask for your explicit agreement with this path forward.
We believe this primarily represents a clarification and an adjustment
to what we practiced over the past years.
But of course we cannot force anyone to agree, so for those who do not
agree to this license update we still offer the choice to have their
code removed from Roundcube.
Please contact us in case you have serious objections against the
GPLv3+ with exceptions for skins & plugins and you want your
contributed code to be removed.
Thanks for all your support, we're looking into an exciting future of
Roundcube in the year 2012.
Best,
Thomas
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Hello Roundcube lovers and list lurkers
After another round of bugfixing we're happy to announce the stable
release of Roundcube webmail version 0.7. Beside fixing the generously
reported bugs we also added some security improvements which will
protect the Roundcube users from XSS and clickjacking attacks. While
most of the modern browser already provide good production for such,
we addressed the security of older browsers by doing some more content
filtering and environment analysis.
With this release Roundcube also passes the email standards project's
acid test. See http://www.email-standards.org/acid-test for details
and help spread the word about it.
We recommend to update all existing Roundcube installations with this version.
Get it now from http://roundcube.net/download and give it a try.
After completing that milestone we're now focusing on the
implementation of your new skin which should become part of the next
release.
Also we're observing with great pleasure that Roundcube becomes more
and more popular and meanwhile ships with sophisticated server
software such as the Kolab Groupware or Mac OS X Lion Server. Thanks
for your confidence and your support!
Have fun!
Thomas
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Hello folks
After building and maintaining our own translation tool for some time
we now moved to the translation service at launchpad.net. This makes
it a lot easier for many people to contribute side by side and the
launchpad system even makes suggestions from translations of other
open source projects.
So from now on, we'd like you to go directly to
https://translations.launchpad.net/roundcubemail/trunk for any
translation work. If you visit that page now you can see the
(partially very poor) completeness status of our 75 languages. I'd
like to encourage everybody once again to participate and to help us
complete all the translations we currently have on the list.
Many thanks for you help!
Regards,
Thomas
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