On May 6, 9:18 pm, strazzere <[email protected]> wrote: > As you could also note - there is nothing in Android-Market-Api's > license against this type of use.
Yes there is, google APIs services in point 5.3 states that you are not allowed to use undocumented APIs: "5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services." moreover in point 5.5: "5.5 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Google, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose." > > Whether he used their code or not - I'm not sure, but basing it off of > the User Agent is sort of a big leap of conclusions. That user agent > is pretty common on the android devices ;) No, each device uses different UA string when executing market request (it contains device name and build id), therefore there is a lot of possible combination that can be used. Also library that this guy try to sell is based on google's protobuf, which android market api project also uses. Don't get me wrong I have game on android market, it features online highscore and each online highscore entry stores AID (for identification purposes), with 10k legitimate copies I've counted 16k distinct AIDs in database that means that at lease 6k (probably more as not everybody uses highscore) copies were pirated, so I'd really welcome some form of DRM, but charging $300 for lib that reuses some open source project (without mentioning it) and which legality is at least disputable (due to usage of undocumented google service) is kind of shady. -- Regards, Bart Janusz (Beepstreet) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
