Poster: Norganna at 7/12/2005 6:53:45 PM PDT
Subject: Blizzard may ban writing Addons? |
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I'm a bit worried about a new clause that's popped into the WoW Terms of Use this patch.
Section 13f now has this condition:
Q u o t e:
At such time that Blizzard elects to post a list of approved Third-Party User Interfaces on its website, you agree that you will use only those Third-Party User Interfaces approved by Blizzard, and that you will use no other Third-Party User Interfaces in connection with World of Warcraft.
This effectivly stops people from being able to program AddOns.
Since you cannot use the addon until it gets approved, and it will never get approved unless people can use it, doesn't this mean that writing addons will become a breach of the TOU?
gathereraddon.com,auctioneeraddon.com,enchantrix.org
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Poster: slouken at 7/12/2005 8:30:34 PM PDT
Subject: Re: Blizzard may ban writing Addons? |
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I'm not sure why that's there. As far as I know there are no plans to publish a definitive list of "approved" addons. I'm asking for clarification.
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Poster: slouken at 7/13/2005 8:05:24 AM PDT
Subject: Re: Blizzard may ban writing Addons? |
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So, I haven't talked to our legal department, so I don't have any official statement on this, but I'm pretty sure that this is just covering all the bases in case there is any need to tie the terms of service to a set of approved addons. Practically speaking, it's not feasible to review and approve every addon out there. You're much more likely to see specifc uses of the scripting system prohibited than anything else.
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