I am looking for information about providing a license, or "terms of use", for a web application. The Wikipedia article is very limited, and it seems that unlike "downloadable" software (or perhaps "installable" software, for lack of a better term), for which there is much more information, not so much has been written specifically for t...
I am planning to write a short Perl script on my blog to automatically retrieve the ranking of a given URL for a specific keyword (see http://damienlearnsperl.blogspot.com/search/label/RankSearch?max-results=100). I am afraid that I do not have the right to do that with regards to Google's terms of service. I have asked my question on Go...
I have quite a generous bunch of software which I obtained through some internal site at my university. Operating systems, developer tools and other stuff from Microsoft. Although I've graduated some time ago I still have access to that page, all download links, product keys etc. New things also come so the page does not seem to be "froz...
I wanted to try GAE and I did it using a fake google account: a second account I usually use for testing web services. The registration of an application works using a registration code sent me by SMS. That's ok. I really like the platform and I decide to register a new application on my official google account (which is another, of co...
I'm trying to build an iPhone application that gathers content from real estate websites to display it in a mashed-up and structured manner (mapping, price averages...etc) I've stumbled upon many sites whose "Terms and Conditions" only allow downloading/re-using the data for personal purposes but not commercial ones. My intent is to hav...
Is SQL Express 2008 available for corporate, business and government use? Are there restrictions I am not reading about? I know it is free, but I just want to make sure I am not stepping on any terms of use. Maybe I missed it when I clicked around Microsoft’s site, but I didn't see any terms referencing use restrictions specifically. I...
If we want to show youtube videos using the player API on our site, we can do so no problem. In some cases it is only part of a clip we want to play. In the google terms of service for the youtube API they state that it is prohibited to: "8. separate, isolate, or modify the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content ma...
The question is about a free and open source product which allows users to catalog and organize their personal ebook collection. The book's info could be harvested from various websites (amazon, B&N, etc.) via ISBN queries. I was wondering if there are legal issues for developing such a product, in regards to violating "terms of use" of...
Hi All, I was told that I need to have terms and conditions or disclaimer for my program that the user needs to accept before they can install it, is this true? And are there any places online that you may use to get them? ...
I am looking at writing a .net application that uses the Google AJAX Search API to determine where our website falls for a given term compared to a competitor. I can find alot about the old SOAP API however for the new AJAX api I cannot find any information on the following: Is this sort of use allowed as the Terms of use are vague I...
Hi all, Does anyone know if there are any restrictions imposed by Facebook on whether or not their "default" icons can be modified and used in custom applications/websites? For example, does the Facebook icon available here violate Facebook terms and condition OR copyright statement? Free Icons: Grunge Peeling Stickers Social Media Ic...
When reading the terms for google maps api, I'm getting a little confused and I hope someone could clear it up. The terms state that you cannot do real time tracking or asset tracking. What does this really mean? Are they saying, you cannot use google maps api from the GPS device itself? Meaning I cannot show a blinking dot on a goog...
I've read the terms of service, and, from what I understand, I'm not allowed to store any information I retrieve from the Google Maps API. Are there any exceptions to this? More to the point, I'm planning on building an application that shows the user several points of interest (like restaurants, libraries etc) at a certain distance aro...
I'm developing commercial CMS running on Google App Engine. I'm thinking of selling it in two ways: 1) Software as a service (SaS). The CMS running in my App Engine account (as single app), hosting the sites of all customers. A turn-key solution for "end user" customers. 2) Licence for running the CMS in customer's own App Engine accou...
Im currently looking into an easy way to query and store Latitude/Longitude for a given address. There are a plentitude of services out there, but none actually allows me to store the data I retieve (i.e. Google Maps API TOS, Yahoo! Maps API TOS). As I wan't to use them for a distance search I can't really query the data on the fly. Ar...
I have an app that allows users to generate and publish content. I would like to possibly be able to use the content they publish/create to make derivative works, ie books etc (similar to what icanhazcheeseburger has done.) If I were to put an opt in alert to ask the user whether or not they would like to be a part of this, would this vi...
Now let me explain real quick what I mean by "commercial". By that, I simply mean my feature would come with ads to produce revenue. The end user still gets free access. You see, I came up with some ideas for features that would be really nice if they supported, but I would doubt they would support any time soon. The terms of service...
The IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 comes with the following paragraph in its licence: Rights In Data You assign to IBM all right, title, and interest (including ownership of copyright) in any data, suggestions, and written materials that 1) is related to Your use of the Program and 2) You provide to IBM. If IBM requires it, ...
I'd like to make a free open source library that will let .NET developers easily translate text using Googles free service. Of course I can do it, but I'm not sure that it's TOS friendly. Anyone shed some light? Is it kosher for me to do this? ...
Let's start with an example: http://weloveastrid.com/ As you can see, their promotional screenshots are surrounded by a picture of an actual hardware - Nexus One in this case. Is the usage, for purely commercial reasons, of those pictures of existing hardware legal? Do I have to ask a manufacturer for permission? In spirit of the quest...