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		distances on April 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What are the OSS alternatives to iOS/Andro... You have to consider the intention of the service provider, which in this case is more geared towards mobile clients than web services. It's perfectly clear that binaries will include the API key, no interpretation needed on that part. It's the source code part that is open to interpretation. I could of course just ask for explicit permission for that.

krick on April 6, 2017 [–]

So rot13 should work as fine as that, I'd assume. You wouldn't publish API_KEY this way, would you?

distances on April 6, 2017 | [–]

In a sense, perhaps. But I feel that's just technical trickery on a reasonable request, so I don't see myself bothering with such workarounds.

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