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This is actually not true. See the FAQ on the Growl website:

http://growl.info/documentation/faq-new.php#1.3source

Where is the source code?

We will post source code. However, our bigger concern right now is fixing issues and providing support to folks on our discussions group, and on our support email address, and on Twitter. As soon as the flood of inbound requests slows down, we fully intend to push the 1.3 source over the wall.

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I don't see how those statements contradict each other.

Growl 1.3 is clearly not open source at this moment, and the stated intend to "push the source over the wall" seems to very deliberately use wording that avoids any kind of commitment on licensing.

Never mind the odd reason for not posting the source code at this point, given that the entire infrastructure for this is already in place and used for 1.2. I.e., why should other concerns prevent 1.3 code from being published?

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