On April 30, 2024 we updated the Slack Application Developer Policy to clarify existing guidelines.
The primary addition in this update is to provide more detailed guidance around appropriate Business behavior. Specifically, we’re providing some additional guidance on what one example of "circumventing Slack’s intended limitations" looks like.
It now reads:
As part of good business practices, Applications and developers are prohibited from:
- Circumventing Slack’s intended limitations (including pricing, features and access structures). For clarity, this prohibition extends to listing an Application in the App Directory and also offering mutual customers a parallel unlisted or custom Application (distributed beyond your organization) that violates our App Directory app guidelines
- Using the Slack API to replicate or compete with core products or services offered by Slack
It previously read:
As part of good business practices, Applications and developers are prohibited from:
- Circumventing Slack’s intended limitations (including pricing, features and access structures). You may not use the Slack API to replicate or compete with core products or services offered by Slack
In our Developer Program terms, we also updated the link to Slack’s Acceptable Use Policy and updated “Developer Services and/or Content” to “Developer Services and/or Developer Resources” to make the agreement clearer.
Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions about our developer policies. Thank you!