what happened to "why the hostility"

[barocca]

i moved it

it is in a secure forum where i can read it all
which i dont have time to do today

as far as i can tell from the notifications i received and the couple of posts i read no-one need panic, looks like a little bit of creative rivalry is all

okies
not majorly concerned unless i find death threats in it,
which i wont


Mods,
who "owns" what

actually, because we are making game mods for a product Owned by CA what we make is Freeware and most likely subject to GNU Open Source

no-one can charge money for a third party add-on without the express written and legally authorised permission of CA, Activision, Sega.

What we do have to do is Acknowledge bits and bobs we borrow from other mods,
courtesy is to ask permission or advise author/creator that we like their unit/review panel pics/map so much we are going to make another mod with their work in it

then we put in the credits "such-and-such" was created by so-and-so" for their "whats-its-name" mod for rome/medieval etc.

for example
Samurai Wars mod is built on my Shogun Mod,
I created Shogun Mod, others took the work and expanded it to make Samurai Wars,
in turn i am taking Samurai Wars and expanding it again and am going to call it "Samurai"


if RTR want to borrow bits of EB all the better for EB (guys, they like your work), it is polite for RTR to mention EB in the credits,
if they fail to do so then NOTIFY ME and copies of RTR hosted on sites within my reach will have the read me files edited by me to include credits for EB,
and vice versa,
if EB borrows bits from RTR then one would expect RTR to be mentioned in the credits of EB.

i dont expect to have to add anything to the readme files,

i am sure two hard core groups who are both passionate about doing their bit to improve the communities appreciation of Rome by working on two excellent mods will find some way to share what they learn about the mechanics of the game and will be happy to share their creations,
units, scripts, buildings, maps etc etc
to make BOTH mods that much better


in all honesty you cannot tell me you have never gone and read each others forums to see what they are up to, what have they found about the game system and mechanics that can be utilised to improve your own mod,
have they made any graphics , skins etc that can be utilised to enhance your own mods,

as long as you tell each other,
"hey i like that, thats good, we include that in "xyz" mod too!"
should be no worries


remember you all working to make Rome a better game

cheers,
B.