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On 11/10/2018 20:25, Mihovil Stanić wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">11.10.2018 u 20:37, Mark Rousell je
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Of course, EAS (ActiveSync) would be the best, longer-term
supported third party access protocol but that requires a
patent licence. May I ask, did you look into doing that?<br>
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EAS is standard which hardly changes and is used by most clients.
I think even Outlook uses or used EAS at one point.<br>
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To the best of my knowledge, Outlook only supports EAS for access to
services other than Exchange (but I stand to be corrected).<br>
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I believe that Outlook on Mac uses EWS to access Exchange whereas
Outlook on Windows has always used some form of MAPI for Exchange
access.<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:d13bc4d2-5137-bb9a-d008-30e5bea96247@miho.im"
type="cite"> Concerning licence, I don't think you need licence if
program is open source and you are not selling it, so Thunderbird
fits right in.<br>
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For example SoGo is based in USA or Canada if I remember
correctly, and it's using EAS in their open source groupware
program. GroupOffice is also using EAS implementation, and they
are based in Europe.<br>
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This is very interesting. I wasn't aware that they were willing to
license EAS for free. This could be very useful for the right
project.<br>
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For anyone who's interested, I note that the Microsoft IP licensing
pages are here[1] and here[2].<br>
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Footnotes:-<br>
1: Licensing Exchange ActiveSync (EAS)
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/mtl/eas-licensing.aspx"><https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/mtl/eas-licensing.aspx></a><br>
2: IP Licensing
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://celaiplicensing.azurewebsites.net/pages/IPlicensing.aspx"><https://celaiplicensing.azurewebsites.net/pages/IPlicensing.aspx></a>.
As a matter of interest, I see that this page not only covers EAS
but also covers exFAT, RDP, SMB, Android patents, and "Microsoft
Rural Airband Initiative" technology and patents (whatever that is).<br>
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Mark Rousell
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