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PostBox Licensing questions![]() Submitted by Gizmokid2005 on June 17, 2009 - 7:00pm
This question is mainly for John. I was looking at PostBox today, and it looks quite promising, and it's based off of mozilla, which brings me to my questions. I know you work with Mozilla with FF and T-bird, and the licensing is similar. Here's PostBox's Licensing. Can I make this portable, or do I have to get permission from them first? Thanks, -Gizmokid2005 ( categories: )
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I'm not John, but
the link is not to Postbox's licence, but only to the licences for the 3rd party software they include.
I cannot see any reference to their licence on the site, but, one thing I did find in the FAQ was...
Which rather suggests that it is going to be pay-for software, and, as such, not a good candidate for PortableApps.com.
Not open source
It's NOT open source.
By Mozilla-based, I've assumed that they mean it uses XUL and XULRunner.
I looked at it yesterday, sure it looks a good app, but no go for here at the moment anyhow. Then I didn't get round to posting in the request thread.
Christian, developer, moderator
Here's what I got from the
Here's what I got from the team @ Postbox: