Originally Posted by richwarf
Blizzard really what's all add-ons to be 'freely accessible' to all WoW players. However, they currently have it saying 'free'.
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Did anybody stop and think under what reason can Blizzard limit what a person can write or not write?
They dont own the LUA lenguage, addon authors are merely using their API and that doesnt constitue a breach of copyright:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...h-of-copyright
The API are public that means they cant be considered "trade secret" or whatever they want to classify them to
enforce their rules.
They have absolutly 0 legs to stand on limiting authors addons.
So what stops somebody to start charging for an addon if they want , the code will be 100% their copyright,
it is not derivative since there is NO code from Blizzard on any addon ever.