You can charge customers for additional data/features that happen to be compatible with the free program on the market IF.... you do not charge through the program you give away on the market and you do not distribute the data through the market.
i.e., you can give away a text file reader for free on the market and sell books or whatever on your website that can be read on the free text file reader. You can also sell extensions to existing free programs, again, outside of the market and not through the program distributed on the market, assuming that, for example, the program can accept plug-in components. A sneaky way to get there is to link to your product web page from the program, and the website has somewhere in it a link to buy additional plug-ins. This does not and can not violate market contracts since the market does not dictate the license under which you distribute your program, it only dictates how you distribute what you distribute ON THE market. As an example, I will site stupid "skins" for home replacements. You have the home replacement program, and various people can sell their skins for it, both on and off the market. The ones sold OFF the market do not provide any revenue to google. This does not result in the home replacement program being removed from the market. On Aug 18, 1:08 am, "droidin.net" <[email protected]> wrote: > If I place free app on the market which includes paid features for > which I use alternative means of billing my users (say direct PayPal > payment) will that violate anything in the Market agreement and will > my app be banished from the Market? Say (for the sake of argument) the > app even before the license is purchased is useful "as is" and fully > functional. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
