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Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail
From: |
Cesar Crusius |
Subject: |
Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Aug 2020 10:02:40 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> > The person you want to reach out to is probably
> > dvratil@kde.org. Here's a relevant blog post from him, about how
> > he fixed the Kontact Oauth2 problem:
>
> > https://www.dvratil.cz/2019/08/kontact-google-integration-issue/
>
> Lars, is this something you can do?
>
> > My auth-source-xoauth2 package "avoids" that by having every user
> > do the API key dance with Google, and as a result is rather hard
> > to setup.
>
> Aside from the inconvenience, is there anything about this we simply
> cannot ask users to do? Does it require accepting terms that are
> unjust and not required for using Gmail itself?
I went through the process a long time ago, so I can't answer that with
certainty. The current legalese is in the pages here:
https://developers.google.com/terms
Somebody with a keener legal eye could look at it, but there are certainly
more/different terms there.
As an aside, it is worth noting that my package is not Gmail-specific. It could
be used for the Reddit example given before via similar means: register a
project/app in Reddit, get the keys, etc.
The crux here is that there needs to be an app - their intent is that the
software producer (in this case an "Emacs" or "Gnus") registers an "official"
app, and the app manages its secrets in a way compliant with their terms (which
we already know is pretty hard for OSS projects).
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Cesar Crusius
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- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, (continued)
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Robert Pluim, 2020/08/06
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Cesar Crusius, 2020/08/06
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Colin Baxter, 2020/08/11
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Colin Baxter, 2020/08/11
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Uwe Brauer, 2020/08/11
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Uwe Brauer, 2020/08/11
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Colin Baxter, 2020/08/11
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Richard Stallman, 2020/08/11
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Colin Baxter, 2020/08/12
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Richard Stallman, 2020/08/06
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail,
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- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Michael Anckaert, 2020/08/07
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Cesar Crusius, 2020/08/07
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, T.V Raman, 2020/08/07
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Richard Stallman, 2020/08/07
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Richard Stallman, 2020/08/07
- Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail, Richard Stallman, 2020/08/07
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