[Opencd-devel] Eudora appears to be proprietary

[David W. <dwh...@id...>]

Jon Saltzman said:

> Here is an excellent opportunity to put a really powerful standalone =
> mail-client into open-cd: Eudora 5.1.  I am not 100% sure it is GPL'ed, =
> however, I do know that they have a free affiliate program and all one =
> has to do is sign up here (http://www.eudora.com/affiliate/) to be able =
> to distribute their software for free.  I'd suggest we look at this for =
> our mail client, in addition to just mozilla (I know many users prefer =
> to have their mail separate from their web browser).

I looked at their website, and searched Google, and
found no evidence that Eudora is open source software/
free software.  Their website is full of licensing options... but
not source code.

Articles such as:
  http://www.techsoup.org/articlepage.cfm?articleid=40&topicid=2
do list Eudora as "free software", but that article also lists
Microsoft Internet Explorer as free software
(they clearly just mean "don't need to pay").

Thus, it looks like Eudora is proprietary, and thus wouldn't
fit the stated aims of the OpenCD project.

I don't see any need to put create a Eudora CD-ROM anyway.
If you want a CD-ROM with Eudora, they'll sell it to you for $1
in bulk now.


--- David A. Wheeler