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[Matthias Gehre <M.Gehre@xxxxxx>]

Hi Mika,

regarding the legal issues: From my understanding (I'm not a lawyer!), it's
forbidden to "explore outside the boundaries of the normal requests made by
WhatsApp clients", but it does not mention alternative clients.
Additionally, it seems that
http://www.openwhatsapp.org (for the Blackberry 10, WebOS and N9) is at
least tolerated.

But I guess there are people at Canonical who are more knowledgeable about
possible legal issues.

Best wishes,
Matthias


2013/3/4 Mika Meskanen <mika.meskanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> I had a chat about this with Gustavo today, and based on that I think it's
> clear that the design team need to provide a generic and scalable user
> experience within "Telephony" for multiple services and accounts – be it
> Skype, WhatsApp, Google Talk or something else. Luckily, that's always been
> on the roadmap :)
>
> Considering Ubuntu's cross-platform convergence, that'd also be a client
> that would work across the board, on the phone, tablet and desktop.
>
> However, it appears that WhatsApp does not provide an open API. I suspect
> there are legal issues with that.
>
>
> Regards,
> Mika
>
>
>
>
> On 4 March 2013 19:04, Daniel Holm <d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would also rather have the one-app integration. One of the things I
>> really love about Ubuntu is to have all of my IM accounts in one
>> application. Thats the Ubuntu way ;)
>>
>> Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely,
>>  Daniel Holm
>>  IT Consultant
>>  Web Developer
>>  Student
>>  d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx
>>  http://www.danielholm.se
>>
>> Den mån  4 mar 2013 19:43:52 skrev Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho:
>>
>>  On 03/04/2013 03:13 PM, Matthias Gehre wrote:
>>>
>>>> I saw at http://telepathy.freedesktop.**org/wiki/Telepathy%20Python<http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Telepathy%20Python>that
>>>> telepathy-python is deprecated, and at I was told at
>>>> #telepathy that pygobject and telepathy-glib does not work either.
>>>>
>>> Yes,  telepathy phyton is deprecated.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone enlighten me, if there is a supported way to write
>>>> telepathy plugins in python?
>>>>
>>> I do not think so.
>>>
>>>  If not, which backend is recommended? libtelepathy-glib or
>>>> libtelepathy-qt5?
>>>>
>>> I asked a colabora engennier and he told me that, both are maintained by
>>> collabora,  glib has more people working on that.
>>> I would say to go with qt I think Gustavo is using that on telephony-app
>>> and he can help you on that.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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