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Comment by adambatkin | Hacker News Reader

The license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) kinda sucks. It's not Free or Open Source, but more importantly, "non commercial" for a webmail client is probably an impossibly high standard for the type of person who would be setting up their own webmail client. Even CC recommends against using CC licenses for software.

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> We recommend against using Creative Commons licenses for software ... CC licenses may be used for software documentation, as well as separate artistic elements such as game art or music

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_apply_a_Creative_C...

Ugh. Rainloop has been on my "to-port" list for sandstorm.io but I hadn't noticed the license. If I want to make this available as a "free" package that can be installed on an open source platform, but I also want to sell hosting for that platform, am I using it for my own commercial advantage and thus violating the license? Who knows?

Guess I'll stick to mailpile and roundcube.

Try Modoboa? Link: http://modoboa.org/en/

Ooh, thanks, I'll add that to the list.

Apparently they want you to pay $85 a year for a real license, which is a complete shame, but rational given that there is at present a total of one reasonably modern open-source email client (Roundcube) and it's still pretty dreadful to work with, and in some cases hard to use. Rainloop don't have much in the way of open-source competitors to drive the market price near 0.

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