Re: Query about GRAMPS interacting with online databases
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My understanding is that both Ancestry & FamilySearch require executing a license agreement contract to use their API. And that using their API is a requirement for the bi-directionality requirement of syncing. Since Gramps is not a legal entity, the project cannot execute those kinds of agreements. We could make a data scraper without any agreement but those are likely to be banned as a "bot" by their site security. And it couldn't push data back unless the user signed in and violated THEIR user agreements. The project can (and does) have tools that read & write various file formats. So data transfer is possible. If an individual wants to execute one of those agreement and write their own Sync add-on, the Gramps API is public and they are welcome to do so. I'm not sure if OUR license agreement would require that such a third-party add-on module be open source if the person decides to distribute. -Brian On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 15:14, Bret Busby<[email protected]> wrote: Hello. The following statement was posted to a genealogical mailing list to which I subscribe, and then the statement was refuted by another subscriber to that mailing list. "Gramps, which is free and open source, will sync with Ancestry and other online databases." Could clarification please be posted, to confirm or refute whether GRAMPS "will sync with Ancestry and other online databases.", such as MyHeritage? Thank you in anticipation. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) .............. -- Gramps-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users https://gramps-project.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... -- Gramps-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users https://gramps-project.org