[Marble-bugs] [Bug 292832] MapQuest Open Guidance Service for routing

[Dennis Nienhüser]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292832





--- Comment #4 from Dennis Nienhüser <earthwings gentoo org>  2012-01-30 13:25:47 ---
I wrote a mail to them using their contact form:


Hi,

I'm currently evaluating the usage of the mapquest Open Guidance Service for
use in Marble [1]. Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas software
distributed under the terms of the LGPL 2.1. It aggregates several routing
services and presents them in a unified way to the user.

Your current terms of use [2] state that "7.2. End User Terms. End users shall
only be entitled to use the MapQuest Services and MapQuest Content if they
accept the then current end user Terms of Use located at
http://info.mapquest.com/terms-of-use/."

I understand that "shall" is the same as "must" [3]. Still I see two possible
ways to interpret this:
(A) End users must explicitly accept the terms of usage by e.g. answering "Yes,
I agree to the (link) terms of usage of MapQuest" before they use the service
(B) End users implicitly agree to the terms of usage by using the application
which has a link to the terms of usage at a prominent place. If they disagree
with it, they do not use the application or deactivate the service in the
application.

(A) would be too intrusive to me and rule out MapQuest. (B) is how it is
implemented on e.g. http://www.mapquest.com/, but one may argue that the case
is different. Therefore I'd like to ask you whether going the (B) way in my
application is acceptable from your point of view. 

Thanks,
Dennis Nienhüser

[1] edu.kde.org/marble
[2] http://developer.mapquest.com/web/info/terms-of-use
[3] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

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