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Re: Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients |
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Sat, 14 Aug 2021 23:04:58 -0400 |
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> > Can someoe point me at the _precise_ agreement text for this? Then the
> > FSF could actually study the question.
Thanks for sending them.
> 4.a.1: "When using the APIs, you may not (or allow those acting on your
> behalf to) [s]ublicense an API for use by a third party. Consequently, you
> will not create an API Client that functions substantially the same as the
> APIs and offer it for use by third parties."
I am not sure concretely what this is talking about. Does the FSF
ever do anything remotely like "sublicense an API"? I don't think so,
but I can't be really sure until I know what it would mean.
Also, what is "an API Client that functions substantially the same as
the APIs"? You seem to believe that movemail fits those words, but I
doubt it. I don't know what that API can do, but I would expect it
includes a lot more funtionality than just "download all the incoming
mail as an inbox file and delete it on the server."
However, supposing that extending a program to "download all the
incoming mail as an inbox file and delete it on the server" did fall
under that description, I see nothing to stop us from doing it. Any
free license permits adding features, and some of us have never agreed
to these Google terms.
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- Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, (continued)
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, Arthur Miller, 2021/08/03
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, Richard Stallman, 2021/08/14
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, Gregory Heytings, 2021/08/14
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, Ulrich Mueller, 2021/08/14
Re: Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients,
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Re: Making your own application credentials as a user, Tim Cross, 2021/08/15
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, Eric S Fraga, 2021/08/03
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, Eric S Fraga, 2021/08/03
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, Roland Winkler, 2021/08/03
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, Eric S Fraga, 2021/08/04