On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 21:51 +0100, bjoern wrote: > Hi, > > as LibreOffice (or rather libCMIS) grew itself the option to connect directly > to GDrive in 4.2: > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.2#GUI > > I wonder how that would need to be handled in packaging in the end: Access to > the Google API requires a OAuth Client Id/Secret pair for the binary to be > backed in. Obviously, the specific pair used cant be public otherwise it > likely > will be abused (and revoked).
Google states in its API documentation[1] that they do not expect applications installed on user sites to be able to keep secrets from the user, so I don't think it will be problematic for you. Google themselves include some keys in their open source projects, see [2] for example. [1]:https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2InstalledApp [2]:https://code.google.com/p/googlecl/source/browse/trunk/src/google.py#713 Cheers, Luke Faraone Maintainer of "googlecl" in Debian & Ubuntu Developer -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
