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Kiwi going closed source, MailCore will remain open

Entry published jul 07 2007

With talk of email clients in the air, I started seriously thinking about making Kiwi closed source, something I have been considering for 6 months. In my last post I brought this issue up, and all the e-mail and comments regarding a close source Kiwi have been very positive. The consensus is: go for it.

That’s what I’m going to do: Kiwi is now closed source. Any code in the app that was not written by me (which is very little at this point) will be rewritten. Please note, that MailCore will remain open source under the BSD License. If someone wants to write their own IMAP/SMTP client based on MailCore, go for it! It will only help make MailCore stronger.

The Kiwi wiki will be switched over to a wiki on MailCore and e-mail standards. While I’m at it I’m going to switch my repositories over from Subversion to Mercurial, because Mercurial rocks.

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comments

Gabriel RADIC, 4 months, 3 weeks ago:

Hi!

I see the MailCore code repository was recently updated, is there still hope for Kiwi?

Matt Ronge, 4 months, 3 weeks ago:

There is still hope for Kiwi :)

I’m starting up work on MailCore and then I’ll be tackling Kiwi again. I don’t want to pre-announce anything until it’s really ready though.

Monsta, 4 months, 2 weeks ago:

Thinks I would like to see in a mac mail client. Full keyboard navigation