Originally Posted by tutti
As far as I know, you still can't sell your addon - but not because you don't own it (you do). It's because you've signed the ToU, which means you've legally agreed not to, and Blizzard can take legal action to stop you. If you somehow manage to develop an addon without ever having signed the latest version of the ToU, you can charge whatever you want and Blizzard can't touch you. They can still disable the addon, of course.
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There is nothing in the ToU preventing you from selling your addon.
You missing the fact that many addon authors don't have active World of Warcraft subscriptions relying on Lua profiling tools , dry coding and reports from their users to maintain their addons.
Given it's not as nice as being able to run it in World of Warcraft but it definitely can be done. As they don't have an active World of Warcraft subscription they are not legally bound to an agreement they didn't sign.
What we are talking about here is Blizzard's "Addon Policy"
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...02301679&sid=1
It's pretty clear this covers Addon developers only. Not casual users who need to agree to the ToU and EULA to play.
Basically it's like this : The addon policy is what Blizzard would like to see addon developers doing.
If they don't do it they can either pursue legal action (unlikely) or they can simply ban the use of that particular addon (more likely) or even disable the functionality that addon needs to run (eg the whole AVR-E debate)