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#14182 Google Drive Integration

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Latest post by on Thursday, 27 December 2012 18:00 CST

Tuesday, 27 November 2012 13:14 CST

Machiel

Hi,

I've read the User's guide and topics regarding Google Drive integration and whether you should want it or not, because of their terms of use.

But since the last post about this issue their API / SDK are changed, the restrictions to use a Chrome app and place it in the Chrome webstore are dropped. So the Drive API can actually be used for web applications without relying on Chrome of their Webstore.

Will their be any change Google Drive support will be integrated to Akeeba Backup?

I really like Admin Tools and Backup and use Dropbox and Box.net to store backups. But I would also like the possibility to store them in Google Drive.

Kind regards
Machiel

Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:33 CST

nicholas

No, I won't. Their library is licensed under the Apache license which is incompatible with GPL. It would require building a library from scratch for a service which is quite possible that it becomes restricted again in the future. Moreover, Google is known to trash their APIs every 1-2 years, meaning that we'd most likely have to go through this again in a rather short time. That's too much fuss for nothing.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Thursday, 27 December 2012 18:00 CST

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