You are right, the http://picasa.google.com/ homepage links to the TOS page
http://google.com/accounts/TOS?hl=US reading "you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty- free, and non-exclusive licence to" blah, blah. The 10^100 contest website (discussed here before) links to the TOS page http://www.project10tothe100.com/tos.html reading "you grant Google, its subsidiaries, agents and partner companies, a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non- exclusive license to" blah, blah. The new Android Maps API ToS is in the PDF file http://code.google.com/android/maps-api-tos.pdf reading "If you decide to submit or post Your Content to Google, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non- exclusive license to" blah, blah. My standpoint is that "perpetual, irrevocable" is under no condition acceptable (perhaps with the exception of a direct sell to Google, but then we are talking a change of ownership). I share your fear that this will broadly carry over to the Android Market TOS, in which case I will not hide my abhorrence either. Regards On Oct 22, 3:41 pm, JP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 22, 3:33 am, blindfold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Indeed the > recurring "perpetual, irrevocable" is totally unacceptable. > > What irritates is that apk files get the same treatment as jpg shots > from your family reunion you upload to Picasa. After the Chrome > debacle, one would have expected for Google to take more care and not > just blindly copy and paste such terms between the different > services. > There's still opportunity to fix it. They can cover whatever they need > to do in a section in the Marketplace TOS' and take the broad section > 9 off the table, replacing it with appropriate terms. > It'll be interesting to see. My guess: Content grab language will also > make it over to the Marketplace TOS and cover all apps', not just the > ones using the Maps API. That'll trigger a fun discussion in here I am > sure. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
