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The license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) kinda sucks. It's not Free or Open Source, but more importantly, "non commercial" for a webmail client is probably an impossibly h

The license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) kinda sucks. It's not Free or Open Source, but more importantly, "non commercial" for a webmail client is probably an impossibly high standard for the type of person who would be setting up their own webmail client. Even CC recommends against using CC licenses for software.

sheetjs 12y ago
> We recommend against using Creative Commons licenses for software ... CC licenses may be used for software documentation, as well as separate artistic elements such as game art or music http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_apply_a_Creative_Commons_license_to_software.3F http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_apply_a_Creative_C...
kentonv 12y ago
Ugh. Rainloop has been on my "to-port" list for sandstorm.io but I hadn't noticed the license. If I want to make this available as a "free" package that can be installed on an open source platform, but I also want to sell hosting for that platform, am I using it for my own commercial advantage and thus violating the license? Who knows? Guess I'll stick to mailpile and roundcube.
- tonglil 12y ago
  Try Modoboa? Link: http://modoboa.org/en/ http://modoboa.org/en/
  - kentonv 12y ago
    Ooh, thanks, I'll add that to the list.
vertex-four 12y ago
Apparently they want you to pay $85 a year for a real license, which is a complete shame, but rational given that there is at present a total of one reasonably modern open-source email client (Roundcube) and it's still pretty dreadful to work with, and in some cases hard to use. Rainloop don't have much in the way of open-source competitors to drive the market price near 0.