My understanding of the GNU license is that you are obligated to release the source code if you release the modified version of the project (in a compiled format which isn't really applicable for PHP unless your using ionCube or something). Since they are running this from a web server and not technically releasing the modified version then I don't think they are in violation of the GNU license. However, contributing this code back to the community would be the right thing to do and would follow the spirit of the GNU license.
On 12/3/05, Rob Smith rob@rice.edu wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but under the GNU liscense, arnt theyrequired to release any modified versions of a project? Additionally, thats definatly unacceptable how they currently do not credit roundcube for their webmail client. Its fine to use an open source project for a commercial venture, but you need to give credit to the project. Finally, I can't find the search feature (I went ahead and signed up for an account). I remember mention of them implementing such a feature, but I sure don't see it. Oh, and I greatly prefer the default skin.
Rob
Thomas Bruederli wrote:
I know that they're using RoundCube and hope that they don't run into problems since it's an ALPHA version... They added the search feature which is still pending in our development but I didn't get any code of it yet. I had a discussion with Scott O'Neil of 30gigs.com about adding links on both websites and to make public that they're using RoundCube. I agreed but never heard anything again.
The skin they adapted for RoundCube looks nice and fits perfectly into their site. Just the ads are very annoying but that's a common problem with free mail services.
We'll keep an eye on 30gigs and hope to get reports about performance within a large scale environment.
Thomas
2005/12/3, Wolf, Jon wolf@w0lf.org wolf@w0lf.org:
Just thought I'd give you a heads up, I just signed up for a 30gigs.com email account and it appears that they are using a hacked up version of roundcube as their mail client. It's interesting to me that they are relying on it for such a large scale operation. I wonder if their developers are contributing code to the project (their version seems a bit more polished).
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