Addons free from now on, per Blizzard: KeyClone okay?

[Souca]

Blizzard has no rights to tell me as a developer I cannot write a bit of LUA code and sell it after I obfuscate it.

No they don't. This isn't relevant so please stop bringing it up.

I can drycode to my hearts content using API calls that are clearly documented on the web in any fashion I want.

This is dubious at best. You have no right to those APIs beyond what you are granted. How you get them is irrelevant. The only reason I'll give you dubious is that the APIs themselves may be hard to protect in the same way phrases and titles are. The fact that they are published doesn't change anything. In the end though this is irrelevant since this isn't what the statement or EULA are discussing.

The moment I connect to blizzards server with my obfuscated code - I am in violation of their TOS and EULA and then they can ban me if they want - or more likely simply block the addon.

Yes. Also, the moment and user that has received your addon logons they may face the same actions.

That version actually accomidates what they wish to achieve quite well without squashing the Addon Authors rights.

You keep refering to "Addon Author's rights" as if they are something other than a standard person's rights. The fact that they write an addon doesn't give them any special treatment. All that matters is that they have used the APIs (owned and licensed by Blizzard) in a manner in violation with the terms of the license. End of story. They have no rights as a "wow addon writer" beyond those Blizzard grants them. They still have the same rights as a person that doesn't write addons, but then again people don't have a right to violate license terms or contract law because they feel like it.

I know many of you will say it's the same thing - but it's not. If a serial killer is lynched by a mob, it's a felony crime, if the same serial killer is brought to trial, found guilty and executed by the state, it's capitol punishment. Both end the same way, but they are drastically different paths to the same conclusion.

What, no Nazis or Hitler references? If you're gonna try and make this into an inaccurate emotional argument at least go big with it.

The EULA is, and has been, clear on the profit issue for a long time. Anyone who wrote an addon and didn't read the EULA has no one to blame but themselves for "their wasted tiem and effort" and no right "to be compensated for all their hard work". It's cut and dry.

As for Blizzard learning to goosestep and taking up the banner of National Socialism, everyone is free to their theories, but don't use it as justification as to why the issue at hand is wrong or invalid.

- Souca -