I checked my repo to see which Stalwart version I was running and if I could update, and I was surprised to find that the Arch package has been deleted due to FOSS licensing concerns[1], the most severe of which seems to be that Stalwart can no longer build without proprietary code[2]. Other smaller issues include the fact that the web admin interface isn't included in the source distribution, but is downloaded from GitHub on first run, and _also_ seems to contain proprietary code[3].
These issues, which would be showstoppers for a real free software project, and pretty easy to fix if you were the rightsholder of the code, were promised to be fixed "in a few weeks" in September last year, and "in a few months" in January this year, however they're still not fixed, which means I can't upgrade - not that I probably want to anymore. I truly believe in free software, so I find the idea of using "open source" as an empty marketing bullet-point for at least eight months to be fairly distasteful. Might be time to switch to Maddy.
These issues, which would be showstoppers for a real free software project, and pretty easy to fix if you were the rightsholder of the code, were promised to be fixed "in a few weeks" in September last year, and "in a few months" in January this year, however they're still not fixed, which means I can't upgrade - not that I probably want to anymore. I truly believe in free software, so I find the idea of using "open source" as an empty marketing bullet-point for at least eight months to be fairly distasteful. Might be time to switch to Maddy.
[1]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/st... [2]: https://github.com/stalwartlabs/stalwart/issues/783 [3]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/st...