Re: [Enigmail] postbox-inc.com

Patrick Brunschwig <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Jul 2020 18:40:07 +0200

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Dmitry Alexandrov wrote on 01.07.2020 16:01:
> Patrick Brunschwig <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 01/07/2020 03:40, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
>>> Patrick Brunschwig <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Enigmail is available for: * Postbox (https://postbox-inc.com), a commercial product
>>>
>>> Could you tell more about it, please?  Itʼs nonfree, is not it?
>>>
>>>> currently based on TB 52.
>>>
>>> Yet, being a fork of Thunderbird, it should have a substantial free part.  How large that part is?  Is is published?  Does it adds anything valuable on top of Thunderbird?
>>>
>>
>> The Mozilla Public License allows to create closed-source software without the need to publish anything.
> 
> Sure.  No free software license mandates that anything must published.
> 
>> That is, there no published code.
> 
> Neither you, being a purchaser of ‘Postbox’, have ever downloaded it?

I downloaded it, and I'm even using it regularly ;-). This mail is
written on Postbox.

> Indeed, MPLʼs copyleft is so weak, that a free code you get is not necessary any useful for an user¹, but I supposed, that you, being a prominent extension developer besides an end-user, might be interested in it nevertheless...

Indeed, I do have access to the full source code. But I signed an NDA
that does not allow me to share it.

-Patrick

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