The difference is that they are only hosted after being reviewed and audited by either in-house developers or a third party. And most importantly, if (yes, very unlikely) Google's servers got hacked and the javascript replaced by something malicious, then it would not affect them.
I can possibly see 10.1 and 10.5 of the terms http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html being relevant. 10.1 access or use the Service or any Content through any technology or means other than those provided in the Service, or through other explicitly authorized means Google may designate; 10.5 reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Service or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by applicable law; Mike On Jul 23, 4:19 pm, "Pil (Trustworthy from Experience)" <[email protected]> wrote: > If the industry regulations may distrust Javascript files that are > loaded directly from a Google server then they may also distrust > Javascript files that came from Google and are now hosted on their own > server. > > I can see no difference here. > > On Jul 23, 6:07 pm, ecornips <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Is it possible (from a legal/licence/terms of service) point of view > > to host the maps javascript files yourself, so you don't refer to > > e.g.http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=abcdefg.... but > > insteadhttp://www.example.com/js/maps.js? > > > The main reason I ask is a customer is not allowed to reference > > javascript outside their own domain, as it's a security risk. While I > > may trust Google, the customer is bound by industry regulations that > > won't let them reference the file directly from Google. > > > Thanks, > > > Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" 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-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
