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Re:RainLoop Webmail: Simple, modern and fast web-based email... by adambatkin on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @09:29PM (#7941756)
The license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) kinda sucks. It's not Free or Open Source, but more importantly, "non commercial" for a webmail client is probably an impossibly high standard for the type of person who would be setting up their own webmail client. Even CC recommends against using CC licenses for software.
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Re:RainLoop Webmail: Simple, modern and fast web-based email... by sheetjs on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @09:53PM (#7941830)
> We recommend against using Creative Commons licenses for software ... CC licenses may be used for software documentation, as well as separate artistic elements such as game art or music

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_apply_a_Creative_C...

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Re:RainLoop Webmail: Simple, modern and fast web-based email... by kentonv on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @12:25AM (#7942232)
Ugh. Rainloop has been on my "to-port" list for sandstorm.io but I hadn't noticed the license. If I want to make this available as a "free" package that can be installed on an open source platform, but I also want to sell hosting for that platform, am I using it for my own commercial advantage and thus violating the license? Who knows?

Guess I'll stick to mailpile and roundcube.

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Re:RainLoop Webmail: Simple, modern and fast web-based email... by tonglil on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @04:07AM (#7942763)
Try Modoboa? Link: http://modoboa.org/en/
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Re:RainLoop Webmail: Simple, modern and fast web-based email... by kentonv on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @03:18PM (#7946176)
Ooh, thanks, I'll add that to the list.
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Re:RainLoop Webmail: Simple, modern and fast web-based email... by vertex-four on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @04:35AM (#7942824)
Apparently they want you to pay $85 a year for a real license, which is a complete shame, but rational given that there is at present a total of one reasonably modern open-source email client (Roundcube) and it's still pretty dreadful to work with, and in some cases hard to use. Rainloop don't have much in the way of open-source competitors to drive the market price near 0.
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