Bas wrote:
OK…a much better example then
I take a popular programm…hm, which one? Winamp? Ok…

Imagine you are the project leader and leading programmer of Winamp.
Now I re-release it under a totally new name and claim it as my own: “Bas l4m0rz music player”.
Would you really like this move?
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I can guarantee you that the makers of winamp would find this hilarious, and would commend you if you were ever able to get your downloads into double digit figures.

e:

Bas wrote:

Also, I can assure you that almost nobody, if everyone at all, will help if you run into ANY problems. Freelancer modders have lifed mostly in contrary respect of each other, so there isn’t such a high chance that they are going to help someone who stole someone’s work, even if it wasn’t from the ones you asked for help.

Also from what I’ve seen, the majority of mod makers I’ve had the displeasure of talking to treat the small changes to a number of config files as their life’s work, and I am absolutely not surprised at all that the first response to anything was “ZOMGTHIEF”, this whole situation is ridiculous, y’all are babies.

Pastaspace wrote:

What if I, for example, just copy your mod and name it “Bas’ uber mod for th4 pwn00rz”? Would like to see this happen? This isn’t a treatment, but you might should think about this situation. Would you like such a thing? Can’t imagine you do.

To be honest.
I’d actually like it, /v/lancer is made according to the specifications of /v/, its made for the bros, so I really don’t care if anything unique to it was stolen, considering it wouldn’t do much. Hell, many of the features we’d LOVE to see in other mods.

iirc this how the /v/lancer project went from being a discovery server hosted by some guy into a real effort to make something that was genuinely fun to play anyway.

e: Also if people had just said “hey can you credit any stuff you’ve yoinked from stuff I’ve made” instead of “HOLY SHIT A MOD THEFT HAS TRANSPIRED” things would have been totally chill from the start.