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	[quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote cite="<a href="http://everquestonlineadventures.station.sony.com/content.jsp?page=License%20Agreement">Everquest License Agreement, Section 11, final clause</a>"]You hereby grant to us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise all intellectual property rights, in any media now known or not currently known, associated with your Content.[/quote]Essentially this protects us from a situation such as Chet was forced into - where changing the website would mean the data cannot legally be transferred to the new site. Terms such as 'us' would need to be legally defined as Entropy Stew and I (Perry Abbott and Justin Sonnekalb, respectively) -, some of the protections SOE writes for itself in the above License Agreement would need content-nature-appropriate equivalents here (obviously some of the forum content is going to be obscene, rascist, etc. Also needed are the usual disclaimer of warranty, shield of parody/satire. Finally the usual 'can extend/update this contract as we desire' clause at the bottom God forbid something unseen pop up. This license would be entirely about protection - protection of ES/myself from liability, and protection from the data being lost forever. Those of you currently posting can be pretty certain that the clause I quoted will appear in some form in whatever license agreement we end up using. We won't steal your rights to the post - you still own your content, it's just that ES and I have an everything-goes license to use that content however we wish which preserves Caltrops and any future incarnations. --SB[/quote] May want to add the legalese version of 'provided we never charge others for your content.' to the end of that SOE license snippet. This would prevent ES and I from attempting to actually SELL the Caltrops data (not that us diehard commies would, but better safe than sorry . . .) but allow us to add ad banners to the site (I was avoiding the use of the term 'non-profit' for this reason) at a later date. Also, worldwide needs to be changed to 'motherfucking GALAXYWIDE' --SB[/quote]