On Jul 26, 2006, at 6:44 AM, WOODS John wrote:
I am inclined to agree with Michael on this.
The timing of this offer is very interesting. Roundcube is very
close to an excellent beta 2 and full release cannot be more than six months away.
Indeed.
@mail is doing this on purely commercial grounds (nothing wrong with that) but it would be sad to see such a good Open Source project disappear as it surely would.
I got a chuckle out of this search.
http://www.google.com/custom?q=%22we+use+atmail%22
However, I would like to understand what would happen to the source
code if Thomas should decide to sell. Who actually owns the code given that at least a dozen people have contributed?Is it the case that the code will remain open even after he sells
it and therefore couldn't anyone else start a new project from what exists already?
The code is licensed under the GPL.
Whatever Thomas does that is his decision and we should all
congratulate him on creating an outstanding webmail client and wish him well.
Agreed. But everyone keep your SVN sync running in the background,
just in case. ;-)
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