Thanks a lot for the answer. I guess it makes sense to go the Private server route then.
Cheers Ankur On May 12, 8:19 pm, "Ikai L (Google)" <ika...@google.com> wrote: > I'm going to preface this with a warning that I am not a lawyer, this is > just my interpretation of the Terms of Service. > > It could be a possible violation: > > http://code.google.com/appengine/terms.html > > You may be in violation of this: > > 7.3. Unless Google has given you specific written permission to do so (e.g., > through an open source software license), you may not assign (or grant a > sub-license of) your rights to use the Google App Engine Software, grant a > security interest in or over your rights to use the Google App Engine > Software, or otherwise transfer any part of your rights to use the Software. > > By providing a dashboard on top of Google App Engine, you may be, in effect, > providing a sub-license. > > <http://code.google.com/appengine/terms.html>Is this scenario avoidable? > That is, it is not a violation to sell your software to another person. If > you're running Java, for instance, you can sell software in the form of JAR > files (these can be decompiled, reverse engineered, etc). Alternatively, you > can sell the software and provide the source, but license it so that it > cannot be resold - most companies buying software with source don't go into > the business of reselling it, and it gives them the flexibility of modifying > it. Both of these scenarios are allowed by the ToS. > > > > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Ankur Gupta <verses...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Assume someone wants to sell a custom CMS software that can run on > > Google App Engine. However this person doesn't want to sell/give > > access to the source code. > > > So now if someone put up a website and put the same Free Quota as GAE > > offers and the same pricing as GAE offers. It will have it's own > > registration process where in it will ask user the required domain > > name etc. Finally the CMS will be hosted on GAE and user will be > > provided with the dashboard access. > > > There is no desire to hide that this is hosted on Google App Engine. > > > My question is > > > a) Does this violate Google's Terms and conditions ? > > b) Is it possible that once the access to the dashboard is provided > > user can download the source code ? > > > Ankur > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine%2Bunsubscrib > > e...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > 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 google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
