Terms of Service: Is my hosted Code a "User Submission" ?
Hello All!
The ToS (https://railway.app/legal/terms) says under Point 8. "Anything you post, upload, share, store, or otherwise provide through the Services is your “User Submission”."
The "Services" are like everything from Railway.app:
".... our website(s), products, services and applications (the “Services”)"
Then under Point 8 under "Licenses" its stated that, railwas.app can do like everything with the "User Submissions":
"By submitting User Submissions through the Services, you hereby do and shall grant Railway a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, edit, modify, truncate, aggregate, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise fully exploit the User Submissions in connection with this site, the Services and our (and our successors’ and assigns’) businesses, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of this site or the Services (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels (including, without limitation, third party websites and feeds), and including after your termination of your account or the Services. "
From the paragraphs quoted one could conclude that the hosted code is also a user submission and Railway.app therefore gets the rights for it.
I can't believe this is the case. Could you clarify this and specify in more detail
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Railway is an infrastructure platform where you can provision infrastructure, develop with that infrastructure locally, and then deploy to the cloud.
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It gets a bit technical, but Railway needs the rights for your source code in order to make the product work. You will see this for any service that hosts, uses, or in any way touches your code. The license is needed to show you your repos in the UI, copying you code from GitHub, build your code, and host your apps, etc. Without those rights, you wouldn't be able to use the product. Railway does not sell any of your information, and the license does not grant a right for Railway to sell your inf...
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@Christian - clarification on tos statement
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It gets a bit technical, but Railway needs the rights for your source code in order to make the product work. You will see this for any service that hosts, uses, or in any way touches your code. The license is needed to show you your repos in the UI, copying you code from GitHub, build your code, and host your apps, etc. Without those rights, you wouldn't be able to use the product. Railway does not sell any of your information, and the license does not grant a right for Railway to sell your info. And in the event you were to delete your account, we delete your projects, source code, etc.
Thank your for the answer! I am still not happy with the ToS. It says: "...including after your termination of your account or the Services." and i dont see a restriction for the source-code-Part.
It would be clear if the ToS made a distinction between the different user submissions and explained what exactly these rights are used for and for how long.
Thank you for the feedback. We'll look to clarify when we update the terms.