- Paragraph 4.b.1, which states that "You will keep your credentials
confidential and make reasonable efforts to prevent and discourage other
API Clients from using your credentials. Developer credentials may not be
embedded in open source projects." prohibits the use of OAuth credentials
in free software projects. As I wrote above (and earlier), Google
tolerates (at the moment) that this specific point of their TOS is
violated. But that doesn't mean that violating them is without legal
risk.
Oof, fair enough. It does seem unfortunate that the official rules don't
permit OSS projects; I wish there was a way for a user to create their
own custom API key and they could just add that to their account. Honestly,
I am fine with doing what KMail did (since that's what we did before).
--Ken