Hi all, Based on a news report I went to look at spicebird, a program I had previously ignored as it was under a EULA - but it has since been trilicensed under the MPL, GPL and LGPL (apparently to comply with the GPL requirements from SamePlace which it uses extensively). http://www.spicebird.com/spicebird/license
Thus it's own licensing is good - however it also supports thunderbird extensions - and presumably, like it's parent is not doing anything to filter out non-free extensions from the list. All our distro's have been actively involved in ensuring a fully-free web-browser is available through projects like icecat, but I haven't seen much happening in terms of the mail client side. Kongoni's default is kmail/kontact where this is not an issue as there is no extension marketplace, but the most popular desktop mail app remains thunderbird (and presumably in the enterprise space spin-offs like Spicebird). So - has there been any work done to try and provide a trademark-safe version of thunderbird that doesn't recomend non-free extensions/themes ? Like we have firefox in IceCat and it's Ilk ? I haven't found any (but it may just not have made the news as much because frankly, it's a smaller issue than web-browsers, there's a lot more variety in the mail space) - if there isn't... shouldn't we be doing something about that - or do we settle for recommending (and ourselves only shipping) projects like kmail and such over projects like thunderbird ? Ciao A.J. -- A.J. Venter Founder and lead developer, Kongoni GNU/Linux www.kongoni.co.za www.silentcoder.co.za - Blog
