MegabitOne
Caldari
The Black Ops
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Posted - 2011.06.15 21:29:00 -
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 Originally by: CCP Atlas
1) The blog represents the first draft of what our bizdev department is thinking of in terms of the license agreement.
Kinda slow, these guys, no? Taking 6 years to catch up with what their player-base is doing....
2) Regarding this clause:
Q: Will services for in-game currency require a commercial license?
A: Yes, if you require any sort of payment for your services you will need a commercial license.
How's this for a business plan:
suppose X and Y are players, the friend plays WOW  so that we are sure he doesn't know anything about a good game, mkay?
1) X gets a friend to develop an application based on the eve api
2) X puts Y's name all over so he gets the Flak 
3) X strikes a deal with Y so Y sends X the billions of isk (should be more than 3.5b isk/year to iron out the $99/year you're charging)
4) You can't sue the friend since he doesn't know about EVE EULA's and Licences since he plays WOW and since the API's are on the public net, they're considered to be free for all
5) You can't sue Y because it's not his application
6) You can't sue X cos Y is giving X cash out of his own free will
7) They can all pull the 'plausible deniability' trick on you if you try to sue cos none of them will be violating anything
8) Can you spot the flaws in YOUR set-up? 
Originally by: CCP Atlas
Donation and ad supported ventures is a tricky thing to allow without any sort of a commercial license though and that's a legal slippery slope
This is even worse than the business guys! Takes you SIX years to realize that donations and adds are something that could bring CCP's business in danger? Amazing!
One question left: in order to charge people for something, you will have to provide a SERVICE. What is the service you provide? 'The API' is not the right answer since that is free. Or is the general idea to no longer provide the API for free and to make applications have to 'login' to the API in order to use it? This seems the only real reason to me to start charging hard cash for something that has been free before... If this is the case then I guess it will only take someone about 5 minutes before taking out a license and providing his own API for free to others; all the others connect to that guy, no more cost, only donations to the guy providing his own API, guy pays you $99 every year. Everybody happy, no?
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