On 13-10-10 09:02 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > On 13-10-10 05:20 PM, Martin Albisetti wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Marc Deslauriers >> <marc.deslauri...@canonical.com> wrote: >>> I would simply stop verifying them, but not force people to use a specific >>> namespace. >>> >>> AFAIK, other things that use a similar namespace approach don't actually >>> verify >>> them either. >> >> >> That becomes awkward when somebody picks something like com.google. >> > > I think this is a developer terms of use issue. We should simply add the > required legalese to the developer terms of use that the namespace selected > must > be a domain they have permission to use, or else they fall back to the one we > provide. > > Companies can then send trademark violation cease and desists, and we can > simply > pull unauthorized namespaced apps from the store. > > I suspect this probably won't happen enough to worry about it. >
Actually, the intent is to prevent accidental name collisions...so a bunch of people don't try and upload an app called "calculator" and collide. Even if a few people choose com.google.someapp, as long as the names don't collide, we're fine. Honestly, I don't think we need to worry about it. Marc. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers Post to : ubuntu-appstore-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
