Jon Daley wrote:
Of course, if you say you aren't interested, then they just copy theparts they want and change the variable names (maybe) and then you are faced with the choice of trying to do some sort of legal action (in Australia) against them. Yeah the FSF might help, but still a huge pain for you.
This should have no impact whatsoever on the decision about the takeover (or buyout, merger or whatchamacallit).
Frankly, even though the possibility exists, to me it sounds like FUD to bring this up. That situation might arise, but then it will have to be dealt with separately. And it is highly unlikely that this even happen, because as I understand the terms of atmail, the source code is shipped with the product. So if the offer is turned down and we have reasonto believe they're stealing code, the community could donate money to Thomas so he can buy atmail and we can check their code for our code.
On a side note, here's something more on how Calacode regards the OSS community and its software:
"[Atmail is] a well rounded Webmail package that goes the extra mile over the sea of free/half-finished and unsupported packages out there."
http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/AJAX_Webmail_-_interaction_like_thunderbird#c...
Cheers, mtu