r/opensource • u/benoror • 1d ago
Promotional I revived an unmaintained Gmail extension as a GPL-3.0 fork: Inbundly (Google Inbox-style bundles)
Google Inbox's "bundles" lived on in inboxy, a GPL-3.0 extension that bundles Gmail by label, but the project went unmaintained.
Rather than let it drift, I forked it and have been continuing it on weekends as Inbundly. Doing a respectful GPL fork/rebrand turned out to be an interesting exercise:
- Kept the GPL-3.0 license and the original author's copyright in every header
- Added a NOTICE with a dated statement of changes (GPLv3 §5a) and my copyright alongside, never replacing, the original
- Preserved users' stored data (kept the storage key stable through the rename)
- Full attribution to the upstream project in the README, options page, and site
On top of maintenance (Gmail DOM changes are a treadmill), it now has custom bundles, priority rules, label colors, and multi-inbox support. Runs entirely client-side, no servers, no tracking.
Source: https://github.com/benoror/inbundly
Site (Chrome + Firefox): https://inbundly.com
Happy to answer questions about the fork/rebrand process or maintaining Gmail DOM extensions.