Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > > Someone might agree to take the legal risk to violate these TOS. 
> > > > IANAL, but I observe that no other "small" free software project 
> > > > (e.g. Mutt or Alpine) took that risk.  Two larger free software 
> > > > projects (Thunderbird and Kmail) took that risk, but their apps were 
> > > > registered by a legal person, not by a developer.
> > >
> > > There you have something, isn't FSF a legal person? Is GNU an 
> > > organisation right?
> >
> > It is indeed.  If the lawyers of the FSF agree to do that, I would (of 
> > course) have no objection.
>
> But even so, that would only get us to the same very tenuous legal 
> position that Thunderbird and Kmail are in now, right?

AFAIU, yes, but again IANAL, and the lawyers of the FSF might have another 
opinion.