Andrew & Marcelo - thanks so much for the input. It makes sense that hiding logos, etc., hidden and/or proprietary would probably violate G's licensing agreements with their providers. Now the only question is whether to ask for permission or forgiveness...............
On Aug 3, 7:08 am, Andrew Leach <andrew.leac...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Aug 3, 8:10 am, Marcelo <marcelo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > It's an old debate, the letter of the ToS versus the spirit of the > > ToS. > > I'm on the other side of the debate from Marcelo. I take it that the > TOS say that the map must be publicly available, or any password must > be free. Since you charge a fee, then you must make your map publicly > available to avoid the Premier charge. > > However, the map must be reachable at a single url by both logged-in > and not-logged-in visitors. If they've logged in, they get data added > to the map. If they haven't, you don't serve the data. > > The issue is that Google's logo and the provider copyright string must > be available to as wide an audience as possible. If you restrict > those, you need a Premier licence. If anyone can see them, it's ok. > What data you show on the map and how you regulate that is up to you. > > I don't see a problem with that; but then I'm not a lawyer either (but > I have had to deal with making abstruse legislation actually work) > > Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Maps-API@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
