Seafile

vamega 12 years ago |

> Seafile and its desktop and mobile clients are published under GPLv3 with one exception -- the seafile's logo of desktop and mobile clients must be kept when redistribution.

Uhh, that does make it impossible to fork the project under a new name? Also this isn't mentioned anywhere in License.tx which appears to be a run-of-the-mill GPLv3 license file.

zokier 12 years ago | |

Interestingly enough GPLv3 itself states the following:

> If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.

Does that mean that I can just ignore their logo requirement?

Skalman 12 years ago | | |

Yeah, that sounds like a bug. I filed it: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/299

dalore 12 years ago | |

With that exception clause that makes it non-GPL.

Zikes 12 years ago | |

That only requires that you keep the logo file in the project, not necessarily that you use it.

yataa 12 years ago |

Looks interesting, but as a side note; slow your homepage slider rotation down by a few seconds. It's way too fast to be able read it properly.

Flenser 12 years ago | |

http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/

podperson 12 years ago | |

Or don't have a slider/carousel. Indeed, the website is pretty terrible, as is the icon/logo.

Samuel_Michon 12 years ago |

Given the name, I thought this would be a secure cloud storage service based off of Sealand. Alas, it’s a team in China.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/haven.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

grundprinzip 12 years ago |

So they say it's open source, but there is no link we the source is hosted and how it is actually "verified by the community". In addition it feels somehow weird that they have a free community version and a pro version that has more features and non-open source code. So if I would choose the pro version for features I'm still on the dark side of the moon when it comes to trusting their source code...

edit: I found the source on github, but still missing the relation between pro and community...

prg318 12 years ago | |

I was also alarmed by the fact that they do not have a link to their source code on their website. I did some searching and found that they host their code publicly on Google Code [1]. They really should place a link to their source on their website. I was really confused when I clicked the "Open Source Edition" button only to be presented with binaries.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/seafile/

drdaeman 12 years ago | |

Accidentally found it by wandering around the Chinese version of the site: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile

xjqkilling 12 years ago | |

The link to Github repo is under the "self-hosted server" section in the home page.

atestu 12 years ago |

This looks a lot like Spideroak (https://spideroak.com/), which incidentally has a white label reseller program… https://spideroak.com/whitelabel/

joshcrowder 12 years ago |

You guys need to slow your carousel down!! I thought it was a spoof of http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ at first.

flexie 12 years ago |

"We are a small team in China".

I guess these days it's all about picking which government you prefer has premium access to your files.

The product looks great, though :-)

peterkelly 12 years ago | |

I'd like to see a system which stores a random string in one country, and the XOR of your data with that string in another.

Then the US and China would both have to collaborate to actually be able to get at the real data.

flexie 12 years ago | | |

Funny idea :-) For most cases I doubt the US and China would have any problems exchanging strings :-)

stavros 12 years ago | | |

Or, you know, encryption.

flexie 12 years ago | | |

A few months ago I would have thought this sounds paranoid; but does encryption secure us against NSA intrusion?

zokier 12 years ago | | |

Snowden claims that encryption works, and I have no reason not to believe him on that. There definitely is significant amount of people doing crypto research who are not (directly) affiliated with NSA, I'd suspect that they all collectively can not either have missed any intentional backdoors or been bought off by NSA.

venomsnake 12 years ago | | |

Yes, if you have nothing of interest for the NSA. Otherwise almost every encryption could be subverted with an access to the servers and soldering gun - you just touch the body of the guy that has knowledge of the keys on the (im)proper places with it.

willurd 12 years ago | | |

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there aren't people out to get you.

dochtman 12 years ago | | |

Which seafile actually seems to have basic support for.

dochtman 12 years ago | |

It's open source, you can easily run your own server.

thoughtpalette 12 years ago |

Really cool that they have a RaspberryPi server download.

sejje 12 years ago |

What is better, specifically?

hiena03 12 years ago | |

Both the server and client are open source.

mjolk 12 years ago | | |

How does that make the service better?

hiena03 12 years ago | | |

That depends of what you want. Here we have a seafile server for internal use, you can't do that with dropbox.

celwell 12 years ago |

"Seafile"... have we really run out of two-dictionary-word-concatenated-web-2.0 names?