Del Narveux
Dukes of Hazard
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Posted - 2011.06.16 00:37:00 -
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I have questions. In the intrest of civility I will refrain from blatant trolling except to say when it comes to consumer rights I tend to fall somewhere between Ralph Nader and a gorilla on PCP. I will also assume, at least for the time being, that this is aimed at letting people legally sell apps and that screwing over killboards/Chribba/etc. was a marketing mistake and will be fixed directly.
1. Does this only apply to API-linked products or are you using the usual legal IPR definition of anything CCP ever made, is making, or thought about making once but immediately forgot? Consider for example my corp's killboard (which I coded and maintain myself), obviously it's related to eve but it takes copypaste KMs as input rather than API linkage. Do I now require a noncom license and the associated extra coding work integrating a clickwrap user license?
2. I want to know more about how you're defining "donation supported". If my killboard doesn't have a donate link but somebody sends me a few bucks or 500k isk for the lols, am I screwed if I don't have a com license? As multitudes have already said, few if any third-party sites even manage to break even let alone turn a profit and effectively banning donations is just going to **** off the entire community.
3. More of an editorial than a question, but the point needs to be made. You guys keep mentioning cost to maintain, etc. but that requires a very important distinction be made between your hosting and mine. Let's use another example, I had considered cooking up a smart salvage calculator that does a lot more than the ones normally available and could concievably charge an per-use "analysis fee" or whatever. Like the KB, this would be a PHP site on private hosting that I pay for out of pocket. While I would not be opposed to paying a licenssing fee if I charged USD and not ISK $100/year--almost double my current hosting costs--is a bit rich.
I guess what I'm getting at overall is there's a big difference between helping someone make a big pile of cash off Angry Birds: Eve Edition which gets hosted in the new official Eve app store for $.99 a download, and mucking about with guys like Chribba who pay 100% of the costs themselves. While the value of CCP's IPR itself is a valid discussion, the license system needs to take both models into account.
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