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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13-10-10 09:02 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> On 13-10-10 05:20 PM, Martin Albisetti wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Marc Deslauriers
>> <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I would simply stop verifying them, but not force people to use a specific
>>> namespace.
>>>
>>> AFAIK, other things that use a similar namespace approach don't actually verify
>>> them either.
>>
>>
>> That becomes awkward when somebody picks something like com.google.
>>
> 
> I think this is a developer terms of use issue. We should simply add the
> required legalese to the developer terms of use that the namespace selected must
> be a domain they have permission to use, or else they fall back to the one we
> provide.
> 
> Companies can then send trademark violation cease and desists, and we can simply
> pull unauthorized namespaced apps from the store.
> 
> I suspect this probably won't happen enough to worry about it.
> 

Actually, the intent is to prevent accidental name collisions...so a bunch of
people don't try and upload an app called "calculator" and collide. Even if a
few people choose com.google.someapp, as long as the names don't collide, we're
fine.

Honestly, I don't think we need to worry about it.

Marc.