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[Niels Egberts <niels.egberts@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:01 PM, [PiNo]<jllopezpino@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you both for your answer.
>
> The Dropbox's client for nautilus is free software is GPL, you can have a
> look to the code to see how it works with symlinks.

The part that actually syncs with the server is closed source. When
you start the "opensource" client it downloads the binary, closes
source deamon that actually does the syncing. The only thing the
client does is creating an system-tray application and the handy icons
on folders.

Niels.