--On 22 January 2010 17:27:41 -0800 "Michael A. Alderete"
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Jan 22, 2010, at 5:00 PM, David Douglas wrote:
I agree that BSD is a good fit here. However, this is the right time to
think about whether to lay the groundwork for other licenses in the
future, e.g. in the case where a group wanted to take the code and do a
Linux version, which would require GPL.
Um, please go re-read the vision document:
<http://lists.ranchero.com/pipermail/email-init-ranchero.com/2010-January
/000579.html>
In particular, the last line:
"This is a Mac app, dammit."
Let's let the Linux folks worry about their own email clients, of which
there are plenty. Anything -- _anything_ -- that is chosen to make
Letters cross-platform, or portable, or anything to other platforms is
probably the exact wrong choice.
Getting distracted by thinking about being too many things to too many
people will kill this project. Only focus will bring it off.
Agreed in principle. This is a Mac App. Having said that, if some of the
libraries are reusable on other platforms, that would be no bad thing.
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