RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 6 months agoMailspring: Cross-platform, fast, open source mail clientgithub.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareethancedwards8@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoLooks like it’s no fully FOSS. The UI is, but the syncing backend is proprietary.
minus-squarefuzzzerd@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoWhere are you reading that? The reademe in the repo says the sync tool is gplv3. Its a separate process (c++ vs react) but still open source. Admittedly that’s as far as I read.
minus-squareethancedwards8@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoThe longDescript. Attribute: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/by-name/ma/mailspring/package.nix#L11 This could be outdated/wrong though.
Looks like it’s no fully FOSS. The UI is, but the syncing backend is proprietary.
Where are you reading that? The reademe in the repo says the sync tool is gplv3. Its a separate process (c++ vs react) but still open source. Admittedly that’s as far as I read.
The longDescript. Attribute: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/by-name/ma/mailspring/package.nix#L11
This could be outdated/wrong though.