Talk:SquirrelMail

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[edit] Update

Good work BirdbrainedPhoenix! StephenFalken 12:09, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nutsmail

Nutsmail is not "3rd party implementation of SquirrelMail". It is GPL abuse and maybe even violation. See their EULA

It can't be violation because the source and binaries are the same, so they can't not ship source to anyone they ship binaries to. Their EULA is unenforceable because the very act of distributing a set of files which can only work with Squirrelmail means that their right to use Squirrelmail at all is revoked should they try to prevent Nutsmail's redistribution. In fact, such distribution implicitly licensed Nutsmail itself under the GPL.
This is hardly surprising. Quite a lot of weenies fail to understand what the GPL obligates one to do. The important thing is not to give them any free advertising. Chris Cunningham 12:57, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/archive/index.php/t-420290.html . Yet they are trying to enforce their copyrights with images. Nutsmail tries to abuse GPL by linking copyrighted binary objects (images) to GPLed scripts. Theoretically scripts can function without images, but interface will look broken. All features listed in their pages are provided by some SquirrelMail plugin. SquirrelMail 1.4.x skins can't be implemented without lots of mofications in core scripts. I am former SquirrelMail developer and I do think that Nutsmail abuses GPL. It is hard to prove, but if they do that to my plugins or my copy of SquirrelMail, they will be stopped.(Tokul 20:15, 29 November 2006 (UTC))