Janos, I'm sorry if I was misunderstood.
I didn't know the piler.com website and I accidentally entered it thinking
I was accessing the piler.org website.
It was a mess on my part so I asked the question.
Sorry if I caused a problem.

Marcelo

Em qua., 22 de jul. de 2020 às 16:08, <s...@acts.hu> escreveu:

>
>
> I'd like to clarify a few things. I'll use the following conventions
> in this email to distinguish between the open source and commercial
> editions of piler:
>
> - 'piler': the open source email archiving project
> - 'piler-ee': the commercial, enterprise version of piler
>
>
> I'm a huge fan of open source projects, and even though I'm working on a
> paid, commercial product of piler-ee, I'd like to emphasize that
>
> - I intend to keep piler open source, you have access to the source code
> - I won't remove any feature from piler to make piler-ee more attractive
> - I won't force you to switch to piler-ee*
> - You can use piler for whatever purposes absolutely free of charge
>
>
> Note that despite piler doesn't have the word 'enterprise' among its
> adjectives,
> it doesn't mean it's a crappy product you shouldn't use it for company
> purposes. It's quite the opposite. I believe that piler is a decent
> product
> for a secure email archive (especially if you regularly backup its key
> components,
> but that's a story for another day).
>
> However, I've been looking for ways to monetize the popularity of piler,
> so I've decided to fork it, and been working on piler-ee, including
> commercial
> services as well even for piler.
>
> *: check out https://mailpiler.com/ if you are curious what piler-ee
> offers for you.
>
>
> Janos
>
>
> On 2020-07-22 18:07, Martin Nadvornik wrote:
> > Hi Marcelo,
> >
> > can't speek for Janos, the developer of Piler, but I am not aware of
> > any changes. What did you read that leads you into thinking piler is
> > not open source anymore?
> > The source code is available like always at
> > https://bitbucket.org/jsuto/piler/src/master/ and the master branch
> > had the last commit 4 days ago...
> >
> > There has always been an enterprise edition (at least as long as I
> > know the project) but you are not required to pay anything to use
> > piler when using the open source version.
> >
> > Or maybe you got confused because the site currently seems a bit
> > broken and clicking on "GoBD notes" leads to the enterprise
> > documentation. The normal documentation ist still reachable under
> > http://www.mailpiler.org/wiki/current:index however.
> >
> > Janos: FYI the website seems broken. I guess "Please fill or disable
> > this placeholder" is not something that is supposed to be there :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Martin
> >
> > Am 2020-07-22 17:51, schrieb Marcelo Machado:
> >> Hello everyone.
> >>
> >> Is Mail Piler only commercial now?
> >>
> >> Does the Open Source Edition still exist?
> >>
> >> Marcelo Gomes
>
>

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