Commercial CMS on Google App Engine, violation of terms?

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Published on 2010-05-23T13:53:09Z Indexed on 2010/05/23 14:00 UTC
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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 account. Targeted for digital agencies for reselling as SaS.

Being not a lawyer myself, I don't trust my abilities to read between the lines of TOS jargon. Counting on the general knowledge of SO community, my question is: do the above scenarios violate the App Engine Terms of Service?

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