<br><br>On Tuesday, April 24, 2012, wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">For the record, approximately one year ago, Tyler Mitchell forwaded this email to me from Thor Mitchell about the use of the Google Maps API in OpenLayers.<br>
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> From: Thor Mitchell <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'thor@google.com')">thor@google.com</a>><br>
> Date: April 8, 2011 5:52:50 PM PDT<br>
> To: <a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'tmitchell@osgeo.org')">tmitchell@osgeo.org</a><br>
> Subject: Use of the Google Maps APIs in OpenLayers<br>
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> Hi Tyler,<br>
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> I'm the Product Manager for the Maps APIs at Google. I'm emailing you because we just published a new Google Maps/Google Earth APIs Terms of Service today which includes a number of changes, one of which I recognize may concern you. It begins:<br>
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> (a) No “Wrapping.” You must not create or offer a “wrapper” for the Service, unless you obtain Google’s written consent to do so.<br>
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> and then goes on to cite some examples. The goal of this new clause is twofold:<br>
> • prevent Maps API web services, such as our geocoder, being proxied through third party REST APIs without our knowledge<br>
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> • ensure that any third party libraries such as Mapstraction that incorporate our API in such a way that developers can use our API without needing to read our Terms or documentation are reviewed to ensure they honour those Terms, and pass them on to their developers appropriately<br>
> The reason I was keen to reach out to you as soon as these Terms were published was to reassure you that we are comfortable that OpenLayers meets these criteria, and consequently you should consider this email the "written consent" that you need from us to continue using the Google Maps APIs in OpenLayers.<br>
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> If you have any questions or concerns about this please don't hesitate to let me know.<br>
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> Many thanks,<br>
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> Thor Mitchell<br>
> Product Manager<br>
> Google Maps API<br>
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I will attempt to reach out to Thor and Josh Livni and see if I can get some clarity on the more recent change, and see if that has changed. However, I think that it looks like this text is largely the same (specifically, 10.2 looks essentially unchanged to me?), which I believe means that we can consider the previously sent email from Thor to be written notice that OpenLayers is in the clear here.<br>
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For the record, I fell down on this one -- as you can see, I got this email more than one year ago from Tyler Mitchell (who was ED for OSGeo at the time), and I don't think I ever sent it to the list. My apologies for that.</blockquote>
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