I don't see how your first example could be construed as reselling at all. I do essentially exactly that for a couple of my own personal websites. It's free and the pages load incredibly fast compared to other hosting I've used. If a client is willing to pay me X$/month to host their static files on App Engine I don't consider that reselling. That's me providing a service as Ikai noted below (eg uploading the files, uploading future changes, possibly designing the site in the first place and so on). If a client knows how to do all this themselves, why would they pay me to do it for them. It IS a service I am providig.
Reselling to me would be basically adding some form of gateway to App Engine, which basically runs appcfg.py . I certainly can't see how the "complexity" of an app could be a legal indicator as to whether you are breaking the TOS. On May 18, 8:38 pm, Baz <[email protected]> wrote: > The gray area seems to depend, partly, on the complexity of the app. If, for > example, you build a 1 page static business-card website that you host on > GAE and charge $30/month for, that can be construed as selling hosting. On > the other hand, if your application is very large and complex and provides > lots of value, but you sold it in the same way, it seems that it would be > ok. > > Baz > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ikai L (Google) <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > That's allowed. We're more permissive than restrictive with the terms of > > service. Unless you are reselling the baseline App Engine service, you > > should not be in violation. You are in the clear if you provide App Engine > > support, wrote an App Engine application, or sell access to some service > > that runs on App Engine. > > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Baz <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> To be painfully clear, if I develop a stand-alone app that a customer > >> will pay me to deploy an instance of onto their own appengine account (with > >> no talking between other instances of the app) - that is allowed, correct? > >> And on top of it, they can't pull the code since I did the entire > >> deployment > >> and appengine does not have mechanisms for pulling code, correct? > > >> -- > >> 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- 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.
