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Re: Has anyone looked at JMAP?


From: Ken Hornstein
Subject: Re: Has anyone looked at JMAP?
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:44:42 -0400

>- Paragraph 4.b.1, which states that "You will keep your credentials
>> confidential and make reasonable efforts to prevent and discourage other
>> API Clients from using your credentials. Developer credentials may not be
>> embedded in open source projects." prohibits the use of OAuth credentials
>> in free software projects.  As I wrote above (and earlier), Google
>> tolerates (at the moment) that this specific point of their TOS is
>> violated.  But that doesn't mean that violating them is without legal
>> risk.

Oof, fair enough.  It does seem unfortunate that the official rules don't
permit OSS projects; I wish there was a way for a user to create their
own custom API key and they could just add that to their account.  Honestly,
I am fine with doing what KMail did (since that's what we did before).

--Ken



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