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lucian1900 on June 10, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

Dropbox's client is not open source by any stretch of the imagination.

simgidacav on June 10, 2013 [–]

https://www.dropbox.com/help/247/en

On the first I was like "ops, said bullshit"... but actually it seems like it's GPL.

lucian1900 on June 10, 2013 | [–]

That is only nautilus-dropbox (file manager integration) and the installer. Dropbox itself is distributed as a binary blob.

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