I'm not a lawyer, I don't know what that means, but it is disturbing enough to make me leave. If they don't want me to leave, they should clarify their intent.
>You hereby grant to Vultr a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide license (including the right to sublicense through multiple tiers) to use, reproduce, process, adapt, publicly perform, publicly display, modify, prepare derivative works, publish, transmit and distribute each of your User Content, or any portion thereof, in any form, medium or distribution method now known or hereafter existing, known or developed, and otherwise use and commercialize the User Content in any way that Vultr deems appropriate, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or to any third parties, for purposes of providing the Services to you.
Emphasis mine. They have a perpetual license, but only for the purpose of providing services to you. This is a clause and many TOS, presumably to avoid copyright suits.
>You and your End Users (as such term is defined in the Privacy Policy) will retain all right, title and interest in and to any data, content, code, video, images or other materials of any type that you or your End Users transmit to or through the Services (collectively, “Customer Content”) in the form provided to Cloudflare. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, you hereby grant us a non-exclusive, fully sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free right to collect, use, copy, store, transmit, modify and create derivative works of Customer Content, in each case to the extent necessary to provide the Services.
>10.2 Permitted Uses and Customer License Grant. Zoom will only access, process or use Customer Content for the following reasons (the “Permitted Uses”): (i) consistent with this Agreement and as required to perform our obligations and provide the Services; (ii) in accordance with our Privacy Statement; (iii) as authorized or instructed by you; (iv) as required by Law; or (v) for legal, safety or security purposes, including enforcing our Acceptable Use Guidelines. You grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary for the Permitted Uses.
>3.1 Customer Data. Customer and its licensors own the Customer Data, including all Intellectual Property Rights therein. No ownership rights in the Customer Data are transferred to Notion by this Agreement. Customer hereby grants Notion a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully-paid, sublicensable (to Notion’s third-party service providers) license to host, store, transfer, display, perform, reproduce, modify, create derivative works of, and distribute Customer Data in connection with its provision of the Services to Customer. [...]
>You hereby grant us a worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of such Content to provide Services and as otherwise permitted under these Terms and our Privacy Policy; and,
I will argue that each of these examples you've listed has a clearer intent listed. "for purposes of providing the Services" versus "solely to provide and support the Software".
None of them go so far as to say: "and otherwise use and commercialize the User Content in any way that Vultr deems appropriate"
Again, I'm not a lawyer, nor looking to become one, so anything that seems unusual, should be taken with caution in order to protect myself and my IP. I've seen what companies have done to independent developers, and I don't want to suffer a similar fate, only because I couldn't interpret TOS accurately.
Services is a very generic term for anything they offer. They can, for example, offer a free non optional AI tool that allows you to ask questions about the data in your database.
My non-lawyer understanding of the policy is that, for the purpose of providing you with this service, they have the right to use your entire database to train and test the tool. They can even make a contract with OpenAI and sell your data to them for the purposes of building the AI service.
And it’s perpetual and irrevocable, so they can keep their models trained with your data if you decide to leave.
Part 12.1: User Content
https://www.vultr.com/legal/tos/