Re: Mail hacking?
Re: Mail hacking?
- Subject: Re: Mail hacking?
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:51:18 +1100
On the subject of Mail plugins though, I've been having a lot of
trouble finding free source* examples, other than Zoe. Does anyone
know of any, or better yet, some formal documentation for the Mail
plugin framework/api/whatever?
GPGMail <http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/> is a really good
example though. It integrates really well with Mail.app. I am using
it to encrypt this message. I know a lot of people don't like the
GPL, but in many cases developers won't release their work if it can't
be protected by something like the GPL.
Yes, but the problem is that no matter how you look at it the GPL
really is "viral", as it has been described by some extremists - if I
use GPL code, the rest of my code has to become GPL'd too. Sure, I
could use LGPL and segment my system into dozens of parts, making it a
nightmare just to build the thing let alone use it...
I don't want to instigate a flame war or political argument - the GPL
is all good and well if you like the GPL, and may even be using it
already. But in my case I disagree with it's fundamental aims, so I
continue to use the BSD license, and reinvent the wheel.. :(
What I'm not entirely sure about is where I would stand by looking at
the source of a GPL'd program, effectively reverse engineering it, then
rewriting it entirely from scratch based only on the specification I
derived. I doubt I could do so, but I'm not a lawyer and I find that
software licenses actually don't specify important scenario's like this
(e.g. I was just looking at one of the Creative Common's licenses, and
it never actually states what licensing restrictions it places on
derivative works).
Wade Tregaskis
-- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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