So while working on my own mod, I noticed a lot of existing mods slap an MIT licence on their code (which in itself is great - I'm all for FOSS). The catch is, many mods (mine included) go beyond just using the ICities interface and start working on the guts of other bits of code. And that quite often entails decompiling the existing code and including a slightly modified version in the mod.
And that strikes me as problematic, since the decompiled code is pretty clearly owned by CO/Paradox and is *not* under an MIT licence, nor can it be magically placed under one just because it's convenient for us. Indeed, simply placing that code on github seems problematic since it's effectively redistribution of stuff we don't own the rights to.
Now I'm not suggesting for a second that CO/Paradox would actually pursue anyone over this - their stance on modding of all forms has been clear, consistent, and indeed laudable. But I'd be interested to hear an official position on how we should go about licensing and sharing such code the "right" way as opposed to just what's easiest/most convenient. After all, the act of including a licence at all shows that we care about such things, so we should care about doing them right
And that strikes me as problematic, since the decompiled code is pretty clearly owned by CO/Paradox and is *not* under an MIT licence, nor can it be magically placed under one just because it's convenient for us. Indeed, simply placing that code on github seems problematic since it's effectively redistribution of stuff we don't own the rights to.
Now I'm not suggesting for a second that CO/Paradox would actually pursue anyone over this - their stance on modding of all forms has been clear, consistent, and indeed laudable. But I'd be interested to hear an official position on how we should go about licensing and sharing such code the "right" way as opposed to just what's easiest/most convenient. After all, the act of including a licence at all shows that we care about such things, so we should care about doing them right
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