Kolab solution completely Free Software

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Art,

On Thursday 02 August 2007 15:58, IGnatius T Foobar wrote:
> Nice to hear from you.  I hope all is well in Kolab land.  :)

yes it is. :)
Especially Kontact is making great progress in the last month,
we initiated a KDE-enterprise branch.

> The recent Citadel announcement is, hopefully, a way to get some Citadel
> publicity into what some in the community consider a slow time of the
> year for free software news.  We're definitely very proud that we've
> built an entire groupware system out of original code instead of
> integrating existing pieces, and this is what has given us the ability
> to declare GPLv3 across the entire system.

Yes and you can rightfully be proud, this must have been a lot of work. :)

> Our comments regarding "not really free" groupware packages
> were actually directed at Zimbra and Scalix, and possibly others, who
> only seem to have free and non-free tiers because they wanted to be able
> to help themselves to Postfix, Cyrus, MySQL, etc. without having to pay
> for them.  Kolab, on the other hand, has always "done the right thing"
> by releasing the entire stack as free software.

While I consider it important to point of the differences, 
I suggest a wording that leaves room for the other solutions
that does this point right.

> I hope that clears up any misunderstanding.  

Thanks for your clarification!

Best,
Bernhard

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