I'm going to preface this with a warning that I am not a lawyer, this is just my interpretation of the Terms of Service.
It could be a possible violation: http://code.google.com/appengine/terms.html You may be in violation of this: 7.3. Unless Google has given you specific written permission to do so (e.g., through an open source software license), you may not assign (or grant a sub-license of) your rights to use the Google App Engine Software, grant a security interest in or over your rights to use the Google App Engine Software, or otherwise transfer any part of your rights to use the Software. By providing a dashboard on top of Google App Engine, you may be, in effect, providing a sub-license. <http://code.google.com/appengine/terms.html>Is this scenario avoidable? That is, it is not a violation to sell your software to another person. If you're running Java, for instance, you can sell software in the form of JAR files (these can be decompiled, reverse engineered, etc). Alternatively, you can sell the software and provide the source, but license it so that it cannot be resold - most companies buying software with source don't go into the business of reselling it, and it gives them the flexibility of modifying it. Both of these scenarios are allowed by the ToS. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Ankur Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Assume someone wants to sell a custom CMS software that can run on > Google App Engine. However this person doesn't want to sell/give > access to the source code. > > So now if someone put up a website and put the same Free Quota as GAE > offers and the same pricing as GAE offers. It will have it's own > registration process where in it will ask user the required domain > name etc. Finally the CMS will be hosted on GAE and user will be > provided with the dashboard access. > > There is no desire to hide that this is hosted on Google App Engine. > > My question is > > a) Does this violate Google's Terms and conditions ? > b) Is it possible that once the access to the dashboard is provided > user can download the source code ? > > Ankur > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- Ikai Lan Developer Relations, Google App Engine Twitter: http://twitter.com/ikai Delicious: http://delicious.com/ikailan ---------------- Google App Engine links: Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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/google-appengine?hl=en.
