Hey Mike What are your concerns with regards to license ? Looking at [1], it looks like the GData Java Client is Apache License 2.
[1] http://code.google.com/p/gdata-java-client/ On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Douglas Leite wrote: >> >> After analyzing the Google Data API and the code of binding-atom, >> binding-atom-abdera, and binding-feed, I propose an approach to start the >> development of the GData biding. >> >> I propose creating a new type of binding: biding-gdata. Similarly as >> binding-atom-abdera, that extends the binding-atom, this new kind of >> binding >> would extend the binding-atom too. >> >> The implementation of the invokers (linke GetInvoker, PostInvoker, and >> PutInvoker) would be done using the GData Java Client, that provides tools >> and an abstract layer, abstracting the necessity of handling with HTTP >> requests/responses and XML's processing. >> >> The binding-gdata could extend the binding-rss aiming to allow RSS feeds. >> >> This approach looks like the binding-feed, but reusing the binding-atom >> and >> binding-rss, and using the GData Java Client to implement the invokers. >> >> What do you think about? >> > Douglas, > > We need to take some care over the idea of using the GData Java Client - we > need to check out the legal terms that apply to the client code, since it > does not appear to have a license that is compatible with the Apache open > source license, as far as I can tell. > > I'm not saying that you can't use the Google code, but we do need to ask to > see what the right way would be to use this code. > > > Yours, Mike. > -- Luciano Resende Apache Tuscany Committer http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://lresende.blogspot.com/
