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The IP situation is interesting. Was there any code re-use? Does the code you wrote belong to Sparrow? If the answer is "no" to both, you may be able to release it.

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No code was reused. Just Jean-Marc's artwork. Plan was to port LibEtPan in Windows and replace current email engine during Beta, but.. you know.. dead.

Why wouldn't you start with libetpan? It has been available for years, and it's well known Sparrow used it. This story smells fishier by the moment.

Why is it dead. The Sparrow team won't work on it any more... but they weren't going to work on the Windows version anyway. If you were writing it, why not keep doing so?

Obviously you might have to change the artwork, since that belongs to google now. Otherwise, it sounds like this is just an email client that YOU wrote.

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