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Vogue
Cool Beans Inc.
The Initiative.
#1 - 2013-10-16 13:41:57 UTC
As far as I know a EVE api application\platform of some type has to conform to the EULA and generally speaking does not give an eve player an unfair advantage. This I understand. But what commitments does this CREST thing imply and is it in effect now?

I am a hobbyist programmer and hopefully in the not too distant future I would like to release a free eve api application to the eve player base.
Louis Vitton
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2013-10-16 20:18:24 UTC
We don't have the full story behind the Licensing with CREST but it will still make your programs abide by the EULA i believe.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#3 - 2013-10-16 21:47:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Steve Ronuken
CREST is not available for third parties to use yet. It's currently in use with DUST.

One of the reasons that it's not available for us yet, is the Developers license. This needs to escape Legal, so we can sign away our souls, and get access to both CREST and the SSO that it needs.

This includes a number of clauses which restrict us as developers. For example, we can't poach people from CCP if we sign it. There's a copy floating around somewhere, i think there's a devblog on it, but there have been revisions since.

CCP Seagull has stated she's hoping to have it out before the turn of the year, but it's not entirely in her hands.

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Peter Powers
Terrorists of Dimensions
HORSE-KILLERS
#4 - 2013-10-17 10:41:04 UTC
Steve Ronuken wrote:
CREST is not available for third parties to use yet. It's currently in use with DUST.

you are wrong, there is a hand full of CREST interfaces public already. I've already published a PHP Lib for using those.
see: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3586632

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Swidgen
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-10-18 06:01:41 UTC
I ranted on CREST a few months ago. Since then I kind of realized just how dangerous it could be to allow write-access into the live eve universe in a lot of ways. Whatever happens, I'm sure the EULA and TOS will apply.

So this developer's license... is it really tied up in their legal department or is that just an excuse they find convenient to use? Or perhaps their entire legal department consists of 1 part-time lawyer. Like their in-game economist Twisted
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#6 - 2013-10-18 06:52:52 UTC
Peter Powers wrote:
Steve Ronuken wrote:
CREST is not available for third parties to use yet. It's currently in use with DUST.

you are wrong, there is a hand full of CREST interfaces public already. I've already published a PHP Lib for using those.
see: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3586632



Uh... I was meaning authenticated CREST?

You're entirely right, of course. There was some very nifty things done with the AT endpoint, and some interesting stuff being done with the Dust district endpoint.

I just always think of CREST as being the authenticated one, with read/write being possible. Mental blindspot for the public ones.

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