Likely no, and fortunately the developer has legal insurance and plan to fight the case if it happens.
So this repo is not down any time soon.
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qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Not a lawyer; would this likely stand up in court? Obviously I wouldn’t risk it were I the dev, but just curious.
It’s pathetic that I’ll happily recommend my Emporia Vue2 energy monitor to folks running HA — not because it works out of the box, but because the company is aware of the community integration projects and seems ok with it, even if they don’t actually support it. (ESPHome Firmware flash gives you local control — It’s been pretty great!)
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 9 months ago
dan@upvote.au 9 months ago
I’m not a lawyer either, but I don’t think so.
The developer of this Home Assistant integration is German. European law allows people to reverse engineer apps for the purpose of interoperability (Article 7 of the EU software directive), so observation of the app’s behaviour to create a Home Assistant integration is not illegal.
If it’s a Terms of Service violation, it’d be the users that are violating the ToS, not the developer. In theory, the Home Assistant integration could have been developed without ever agreeing to Haier’s Terms of Service, for example if the app is decompiled and the API client code was reviewed (which again is allowed by the EU software directive).