I guess this would also be in a legal grey zone/break TOS, but I wonder if they could reuse the offline models the official Google Translate app downloads.
> worst case you could just self host a translation service
> worst case you could just self host a translation service
(I work for Google but do not speak for it)
And worst case you could just self host a translation service.
Google's translation is good, but it's not that much better than what you can get OSS.
e: Misunderstood your comment (I believe the quote was at the top and you edited), now I see that you were referring to your idea as the potential ToS violation. I agree, you can't violate IP law in your app.
> 11.2 If You use third-party materials, You represent and warrant that You have the right to distribute the third-party material in the Product. You agree that You will not submit material to Google Play that is subject to third -party Intellectual Property Rights unless You are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to submit the material.
https://play.google.com/about/developer-distribution-agreeme....
Disagree on this one. For the languages of the European Union and a couple other outliers, sure it's close. For the long, long tail of languages software developers typically don't care about and are outside the wealthy world Google is the only thing that is remotely intelligible.