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CCP FoxFour C C P C C P Alliance 3251	Posted - 2014.05.27 12:21:00 - [1] - Quote Hey guys, I know a lot of you have been asking for an update on the developer license agreement. I am here to provide you an update. The main point I want to stress is this document is not yet in effect. We are posting it so you guys have an update as to where it is and what it says. With that out of the way here is the current version of the license (that is again not yet in effect): http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/forums/EVE/Developer_License_Agreement_2014_05_26.doc There is also a wiki article here: https://wiki.eveonline.com/wikiEN/index.php?title=Developer_License_Agreement I am bad with words so feel free to make that page make more sense. CCP FoxFour // Game Designer // @regnerba


CCP FoxFour C C P C C P Alliance 3278	Posted - 2014.06.01 09:43:00 - [2] - Quote Shellac Brookdale wrote: The current license version is really problematic for open source projects. If I'm going to create a open source killboard (e.g. as zkillboard does) I can't sign the agreement for all potential users who are going to install their own killboard instance on their webserver. As its open source anyone on of them could make modifications that would not be allowed within the license and theres nothing I could do about it. So you'd need all endusers to sign up. Every corp admin who manages to install the killboard (or any other OSS tool) would need to sign up and submit its application which would basically just be a clone so you end up with 200 corp killboards in the 3rd party listing and with hundreds of contact persons who actually don't really know a big deal about the application. Yes, that is going to have to happen. Everyone who installs your killboard would have to sign up so they can get a secret key and app ID in order to access CREST and the SSO. Let me put it to you this way, once this is out and people are using app IDs and secret keys, if a specific app goes haywire and we deem it to be doing bad stuff we will ban that app ID. As a developer of an open source project you don't want one guy to go and install you application, make some changes to it that cause it to hammer our servers at 300 RPS, and then suddenly we ban every instance of your killboard. This is how APIs work on the internet. There is an open source mobile app for Reddit that uses their API. The source code does not contain an app ID or secret key. When you install the built version it has that stuff but the source does not. If you fork the source or build from source you have to provide that app ID and secret key. Generally speaking, it's fairly easy for us to find who the original developer for something is even if there are a lot of people running something. Especially if you are kind enough to provide a good user agent, even more so when you are registered as a third party developer. CCP FoxFour // Game Designer // @regnerba


CCP FoxFour C C P C C P Alliance 3278	Posted - 2014.06.01 09:47:00 - [3] - Quote Risingson wrote: Were there any thoughts on a paid dev license that would allow 3rd party apps to charge rl money ? Not that I am aware of. CCP FoxFour // Game Designer // @regnerba


CCP FoxFour C C P C C P Alliance 3278	Posted - 2014.06.01 09:49:00 - [4] - Quote I have two questions outstanding with people responsible for the DLA with regards to libraries and third party APIs. Those questions our out and we will wait for their answers. CCP FoxFour // Game Designer // @regnerba


CCP FoxFour C C P C C P Alliance 3312	Posted - 2014.07.01 17:31:00 - [5] - Quote Since we have no intention of putting this license into effect anytime real soon there has been no need to act on the feedback in any kind of rapid fashion. We put it out for review as you guys were asking to see it. This will come into effect first when we open the SSO signups to everyone, and before that happens we will be sure to respond to feedback. CCP FoxFour // Game Designer // @regnerba


CCP FoxFour C C P C C P Alliance 3569	Posted - 2014.10.15 12:44:00 - [6] - Quote New, and probably final, version of the license is up: https://developers.testeveonline.com/resource/license-agreement CCP FoxFour // Game Designer // @CCP_FoxFour

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