[Dovecot] Imapsync - WAS: Re: mdbox and folders containing both messages and sub-folders

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at curecanti.org
Sun Apr 7 23:58:27 EEST 2013


Quoting Rich Wales <richw at richw.org>:

> Replying to Charles Marcus:
>
>> https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync
>> Note the contents of the license file:
>
> Quite bizarre.  So the author of the program is selling it for 50 EUR,
> but at the same time he has released the latest version of the source
> (the same as what he's selling) via a free licence. (!?!)

1) There's no guarantee that what's on github is the most recent  
version of the software.
2) There's no guarantee that any future improvements will be released  
as open source (as opposed to guaranteed lifetime updates).
3) Looks like at least a windows compiled version of the script is provided.

These are all common tactics for releasing open source code while  
maintaining value-added perks to aid in funding the software  
development.

michael



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