Ok - judging by this I can do the following... I can develop my program as planned, still charge users for the program after 30 days AS LONG as the implementation of the Google Maps API is still available for free AS WELL as to the user that has paid, even after the trial period is over?
On Dec 15, 3:44 pm, Andrew Leach <andrew.leac...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Dec 15, 3:40 pm, jdrawmer <j...@formasual.net> wrote: > > > Can my application be a free trial with the option to buy after, or > > would I still have to pay the $10,000+ if that was the case? > > Read the Terms :-)http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html > > Using the free API you can't charge for the use of the API or the > mapping. So getting at the maps within your app must be free. If you > want to add value in a paid version so that you're charging for some > other part of the functionality (like the ability to save data), > that's probably ok. It's not ok to have a time-limited trial and have > to pay for exactly the same software once the trial version has > expired. > > 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-...@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.
