Re: Clarifications regarding GNOME Online Accounts

[Neil McGovern <neil gnome org>]

On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 09:52 -0600, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 7:20 AM, Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com> 
> wrote:
> > 3. continue distributing a "GNOME key" with the source code, and
> > hope 
> > that Google don't mind
>
> I suggest we don't continue to willfully violate Google's terms of 
> service now that the issue has been brought to our attention. The
> only 
> reasonable option seems to be to shut down our Google integration.
> Not 
> just from g-o-a, but also the Safe Browsing support in Epiphany.

Hi Michael,

I think first, I'll reach out to Google folks to see if this can be
adjusted. I suspect it's an oversight - a lot of the issues that are
being brought up seem to infer that this is being thought of as a
webapp centric use, rather than how we do it natively.

Neil
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Neil McGovern
Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation