Important: Roku Developer Agreement Update

This part needs clarification/rework:

4. Roku-Billing.
4.1. Public Applications that are Pay-To-Install Applications, Subscription Applications or Transactional Applications must use Roku billing services.
4.2. Private Applications that are Pay-To-Install Applications, Subscription Applications or Transactional Applications may only use Roku billing services with Roku’s prior authorization in its sole discretion.
4.3. Adult Applications may not use Roku billing services.

For 4.1, it's clear "Roku billing" should be made available in commercial PUBLIC apps - but is unclear if must be THE ONLY payment choice or it can be provided as one-of-many options?

For 4.2 - PRIVATE, it's quite unclear what it means - it's either that

1. Roku billing may be used only with prior authorization (and presumably other methods as they see fit if no - or in addition to - Roku authorization).


2. Or it's trying to say that "Roku billing" must be used for all payments in private channels, no other options - and if you have no authorization, sorry - your channel should be free.

Notice the wording, the placement of "only": "may only use Roku billing services with Roku’s prior authorization" suggests (b), where (a) would been "may use Roku billing services only with Roku’s prior authorization". Were that to be brought in court, it can be argued either way though.

For 4.3 - PORN, it seems to create catch-22 if 4.2 is case (b). Since 2.2 ("Adult Applications must be Private Applications") makes all adult content "private" app and 4.3 disallows Roku billing for adult content, that would imply all adult content should be free (yey!).

Come on RokuCo, you can do better that mucking up the agreement language!
I see you have more lawyers on payroll than support engineers - so send one of them here to explain themselves.