unofficial mirror of emacs-devel@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tramp rclone
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:15:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87in0j8xbz.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1gR5sD-0002Eg-PO@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 25 Nov 2018 20:39:41 -0500")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Richard,

> I see an ethical question here.  Is the rclone program free?

As Eli said already, rclone uses the MIT license.

> If so, how does it access Google Drive?
> Does it dynamically load any nonfree software from the Google server?
> If so, it would not be acceptable to suggest users use rclone.

Google Drive authentication is performed by the OAuth 2.0 protocol. This
does not require to download software from the Google server at runtime.

I've cloned the rclone software from its git repository
https://github.com/ncw/rclone.git. The OAuth 2.0 client software is
located in subdirectory rclone/vendor/golang.org/x/oauth2. It is
copied from the Golang project as far as I understand. But all files are
distributed with the rclone sources; no software needs to be downloaded
at runtime from Google Servers.

Best regards, Michael.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-26 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-24 13:16 Tramp rclone Michael Albinus
2018-11-24 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-25  3:01 ` John Wiegley
2018-11-25  8:38   ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-26  1:39   ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-26  3:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-26 20:50       ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-27 16:00         ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-28 11:25           ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-29  0:19             ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-30  9:46               ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-30 22:44                 ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-26 19:15     ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2018-11-27 22:55       ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-25  3:56 ` Daniel Kraus
2018-11-25  8:43   ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-25 11:33     ` Daniel Kraus
2018-11-25 12:02       ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-26 12:35         ` Daniel Kraus
2018-11-26 18:55           ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-27  9:44             ` Daniel Kraus
2018-11-27 12:18               ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-27 13:14                 ` Daniel Kraus
2018-11-27 13:32                   ` Michael Albinus

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87in0j8xbz.fsf@gmx.de \
    --to=michael.albinus@gmx.de \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    --cc=johnw@gnu.org \
    --cc=rms@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).