Re: Clarifications regarding GNOME Online Accounts

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

> On 17 Feb 2019, at 04:04, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 2:57 PM, Nathan Graule via desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org> wrote:
> > A solution would be for distribution package maintainers to use the
> > binary tarball as a base instead of sources - this way the build can be
> > done with secrets (ie. using GitLab CI and environment variable
> > secrets) and sent to distributions for packaging. This certainly puts
> > GNOME in a unique position in the landscape, though it allows for GNOME
> > to control the build process in such a way that build secrets become
> > possible.
> > Though if this is the way it goes, be sure to be prepared for all the
> > "GNOME forbids people to build their software stack" headlines,
> > followed by a "actually the reason is that they needed to handle
> > secrets in their builds in order to support client keys for the various
> > integrations in the software" in the third paragraph.
>
> Well yeah... but distros will never allow that.

It’s also against the GPL (and the LGPL, depending on where the secrets gets stored)

> Michael
>
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