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Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients


From: Eric Abrahamsen
Subject: Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:14:32 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

>>> 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?



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