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.
>



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