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Re: [Maildev] Integrating LookOut / TNEF / winmail.dat

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Magnus Melin
Thu, Dec 7, 2017 9:00 AM

I guess there is no licensing issue. Reading the bug the licensing issue was
resolved in 2007. Old memory ;)

-Magnus

On 07-12-2017 00:04, Ben Bucksch wrote:

Hey Magnus,

you said the TNEF addons all have license problems and use non-OSS libraries.

The most popular is LookOut
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/lookout/

The page says it's MPL 1.1. I looked at the content, it's pure JS and tnef.js
has no special license header, so I assume it's MPL 1.1 like the rest. The ext
page description says "The TNEF decoding engine was inspired (with permission)
by the tnef.sf.net project", so that appears to be a re-write by the LookOut
author.

Do you still think that there are license problems? If so, which ones?

Ben

I guess there is no licensing issue. Reading the bug the licensing issue was resolved in 2007. Old memory ;) -Magnus On 07-12-2017 00:04, Ben Bucksch wrote: > Hey Magnus, > > you said the TNEF addons all have license problems and use non-OSS libraries. > > The most popular is LookOut > https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/lookout/ > > The page says it's MPL 1.1. I looked at the content, it's pure JS and tnef.js > has no special license header, so I assume it's MPL 1.1 like the rest. The ext > page description says "The TNEF decoding engine was inspired (with permission) > by the tnef.sf.net project", so that appears to be a re-write by the LookOut > author. > > Do you still think that there are license problems? If so, which ones? > > Ben >