Google Android Challenge Terms - submitter beware

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Google released it's terms and conditions for the Android Developer Challenge. For those of you submitting entries for this competition here's the fine print...

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From the terms, it seems clear to me that if you win (and accept the grant money), you would have to give google whatever they want, and let them do whatever they want with it.

It seems inconceivable to me, that a company like google, would grant the prize money for a client/server app and not want to have the server piece as well.

I find that very concerning. How can they expect everyone to turn over ALL of their web service code? Any app meaningful will be making calls to outside web services. I'd refuse the prize money if they demanded all of the server side code as well.

That is exactly my point. It is extremely alarming and really something people should consider before submitting to this contest. As soon as you submit, whether your win or not, you may very well have just given them their next idea for nothing in return.

"Additionally, if you're building client/server type apps, you might have to hand over your services if you win the $25K prize."

Does anyone know if this is true? I do not see any indication that Google have rights to anything else but the submitted Android code.

Perhaps the best thing would be to submit things already patented by someone else?

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/05/0138259 comes to mind.

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