grive open source client for google drive

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 12:05:35 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 11:51 -0300, Adrian Alves wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am about to package this:
>> grive open source client for google drive
>> http://match065.github.com/grive/
>>
>>
>> Just wondering in case if somebody else is working on it
>>
>
> You may want to check with the Fedora Packaging Committee on whether
> this is an acceptable project for Fedora. I seem to recall some concern
> that packages that are only useful for communication with a non-Free
> source may not be acceptable for inclusion.

The software is free, whether the services it access are free or not
is not a reason to block it (and never have been).
We have other packages that can access google services, or twitter or ....

So as long as the software is free and not patent encumbered I don't
see a reason to block it.


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