Originally by: Gene Windstar

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Edited by: Gene Windstar on 20/06/2011 21:25:38
"Please help us by continuing to give constructive feedback into how you want this service to be since our motives are really to empower 3rd party development and not to try to squeeze money out of starving programmers."

Originally by: CCP Zulu

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Hello all.

At the risk of sounding corporate-y, I have to say Iæm impressed and greatful for the amount of passion shown in this thread.

There are a lot of very valid points raised here. What's interesting is that most, if not all, of the issues that are being raised are because of confusing wording, terminology or misunderstandings in the draft document.

It is in no way the purpose of the program to deter or make money off 3rd party development. The core purpose is simply to have control our IP and brand and have a contract in place so we can have some form of regulation on apps and services that use the EVE name and EVE resources (API).

Itæs obvious we have to review and iterate on the contract and program as presented in the devblog since most of the points mentioned in the comments are not in line with its core purpose.

Unfortunately that will take some time and weære kind of swamped for the next couple of weeks.

So what weæll do is take a step back, harvest feedback from this thread, do an iteration pass on the contract and terms and give you an updated version before the end of summer. Until we have a license that meets our needs and your expectations we will not make any changes to our terms or enforcement thereof.

As always, your feedback is not only welcomed but in fact essential to us. Thank you.

Arnar Hrafn Gylfason
Senior Producer of EVE Online

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Saying this well in the meantime unsticking the thread What hoping it will disappear? I guess we know what you think of our input and having a discussion, and well it may be hard to look at this thread for you, plain and simply, you messed up and you will have to live with that. People are annoyed and rather angry about this, even if it is a misunderstanding i dont think this will just disappear like you hope until people get an answer or apology for the lack of proofreading this "early" draft (which i might add wasn't labeled as such when it was released, just mentioning feedback could imply you might do this as early as next week) or CSM (you know....those guys you fly over and everything that are supposed to be in the loop ) input. This is a PR disaster and you need to activate your Damage Control before you incur any more damage.

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