Goodbye Sylpheed-Claws, Hello Claws Mail

Today we changed the name of Sylpheed-Claws to Claws Mail, as we move further from our Sylpheed origin. This will help those people who still mistakenly think that Sylpheed-Claws is the development or bleeding edge version of Sylpheed – which it ceased to be a long, long time ago – and will stop people referring to Claws as 'sylpheed', (which is something that began to bug me more than it should have) – it is even packaged as 'Sylpheed (claws version)' for one distro. There is little that is shared between the two anymore, they don't even share the same license: Sylpheed is (partly) LGPL whereas Claws Mail is, of course, GPL – there's nothing lesser about Claws Mail.

Goodbye Sylpheed-Claws, Hello Claws Mail.

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3 Responses to “Goodbye Sylpheed-Claws, Hello Claws Mail”

  1. Colin Says:

    And maybe that'll stop the annoying "bloated" comments, too :)

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  2. borkenkaefer Says:

    So we have to talk about the CM now, not the SC anymore…

    Is the name anyhow related to "Windows Mail"? ;-)

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  3. wwp Says:

    Or Apple mail? You're joking, borkenkaefer, aren't you? That's just a common naming scheme for such app.

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