Re: GNOME Online Accounts extensibility

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 10/10/11 10:39, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On jue, 2011-10-06 at 14:30 -0400, Ken VanDine wrote:
> > Sorry, not trying to sound harsh here but I couldn't find a better way
> > to say this.
> >
> > Basically you are saying that GOA isn't really an open technology to
> > help consolidate user's online accounts, it is only to help consolidate
> > accounts for blessed GNOME apps?  This doesn't really help users in the
> > big picture, but I guess the design team makes those decisions.
> GOA already has support for Twitter and Facebook accounts, they are just
> disabled in the build by default because of the legal issues David
> mentions.
>
> In fact, I asked about enabling them by default recently, and David
> explained the distributing-the-keys problem, which needs to be solved.
> So, there's nothing to do with designers, it's just a legal issue.
>
> Out of curiosity, what keys does gwibber use? does it distribute them?

Disclaimer: I am not savy to all the details here.

With Ubuntu's approach in their last distribution to FaceBook/Twitter 
(i.e. asking the user to accept the terms themselves during set up), 
isn't that accepting the "key" here? Or is this some sort of SDK key?

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Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.