Igor Raits wrote:
> I am packaging one nice GUI application (newsflash) that is working
> with API of some services like feedly. Those require some API key, but
> I think it is against their rules to have it included in the plain-text
> format in git. I am curious if there is a way how to get those passed
> during the build. The key can be passed as an environment variable on
> the user's system, but there is no way everybody will be getting their
> own keys and I think this is non-trivial process.
Unfortunately, this whole API key concept is inherently incompatible with
the concept of Free Software.
The only thing that you can do is to get an API key for Fedora, ship it in
dist-git no matter what the service's TOS say, and hope they won't ban the
key. (Most services actually don't, because they know that their rules are
not realistically enforcible to the letter for Free Software.) If they do
ban the key, there is not much we can do unfortunately.
Kevin Kofler
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