Jonathon, I find your interpretation of the Picasa commerical use clause intriguing, but inaccurate. Selling the *computer* is hardly making commerical use of *Picasa*. The installer presumably installed Picasa on the computer to use it himself - note the phrasing «sell a computer that has Picasa on it» not «sell a computer on which I've installed Picasa to make it more commerically attractive». As I pointed out above, the OP can sell the computer without Picasa installed, then install Picasa as a service to the purchaser - nothing in the Picasa license would indicate that helping someone else to install Picasa, even if one were paid for one's time, is to be construed as «commercial use». My suggestion is that unless you can provide an authoritative statement from Google to the effect that «Picasa» - or for that matter, the Google Toolbar, etc, must be removed from a computer prior to its being sold to another party, you cease scaring people unnecessarily....
Henri On Feb 17, 1:25 pm, Jonathan Kamens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/17/2010 07:00 AM, mhenriday wrote:> DJ, as anyone can download as many > examples of Picasa as they wish, I > > very much doubt that you have to get Google's permission to sell your > > computer. Google could hardly complain if you uninstalled Picasa > > first, sold the computer, and then re-installed Picasa on it, which > > would lead to precisely the same result, so I suggest you can rest > > easily.... > > Such a suggestion is incorrect. > > The Picasa license says, "Picasa Software is made available to you for > non-commercial use only. This means that you may use it at work or at > home, but you first need to obtain Google's permission if you want to > tell the Picasa Software or any information, services, or software > associated with or derived from the Picasa Software, or if you want to > modify, copy, license, or create derivative works from the Picasa Software." > > Selling a computer containing Picasa is clearly commercial use. If > there were no value to the purchaser of the computer in having Picasa > installed on it, then the seller would not bother to install it. > > Furthermore, the particular version of Picasa described by the OP, > "Picasa 3.6 on top of 3.0 through Wine," is a derivative work, not the > actual Picasa as distributed by Google. > > Incidentally, the same license agreement says, "In the event that you > would like to use the Picasa Software for Commercial Use, please contact > us requesting permission for such Commercial Use (and detailing the > specific type of Commercial Use requested) > athttp://www.google.com/picasasupport."; So it would seem that that's the > answer to the OP's question. Or, at least, that's the answer that > Google gives; whether it'll work is another question entirely, since > that's just the generic Picasa "Use the help forums to contact us" page. > > jik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" 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-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en.
