On 7/8/2017 at 1:11 PM, D4edalus said:
@sheep_wizard2 you can fully opensource your mod and present it on a website as yours. with some luck you also get contributions from others to your opensource project -> see the cod4x server. that's a way better approach than developing tons of stuff in parallel with others.



  On 7/8/2017 at 7:24 AM, T-Max said:
I have made asset extractor to prevent people extracting assets. WUT?

I can't really be bothered to get into this again because for some reason you both do not understand the difference between a call of duty mod and software but here it is in short. This community is literal cancer. All call of duty communities are literal cancer. Of course there are the nice people that like to help and want to be nice but this is a very very rare thing. If you mod for this game then you mod for yourself and only yourself because the moment other people have your code they will claim it as there own and you can do nothing about it. If you open source your mod then people will clone / fork it, remove your credits from the file header ( ignoring any form of licence you have ) and then claim it as there own. This community is full of the people that can and the people that can't be fucked to learn how to. I've been doing this shit for 9 years and I've never met someone in the middle. You either have programming experience and you want to pick up modding so you put the hard work into learning it or you pretend to be good by stealing other peoples mods. It's bad enough we already have to hide our gsc code on the server side but now we have to start making shitty systems to stop being out right stealing our code because idiots like you two don't understand how this community works. By enforcing everyone to open source there code it simple exposes your code to theft with no reward. I've got multiple open source mods that I've always welcomed contributions but I've never had one but I've had 1000's of downloads. I've also seen my code used throughout the cod4/5 modding community with no mention of credit. I literally have to chase people that I think might be using my code to add credit. We run our `dying` communities purely by the fact that we have something new and unique to offer. If you allow everyone to steal our unique shit then we have noting to offer to our community. Our communities will die and this game will fall further and further into the grave. This has already been happening for months now. I've just been watching cod4 communities dying because anyone that has custom code are losing there player base because 6 seconds later someone is already trying to take there work and class it as there own. I can get you so many examples of this happening. Just a month ago I saw someone that had stolen my entire menu design and classed it as their own.

TL;DR: understand the community you are making this for. We don't want people to be able to get our assets because it allows them to steal our code without a mention of credit. Open source is not this community and never will be. We put months worth of work into our mods to then have some 12 year old take out code. Slap there stupid ass name on it and change a colour here and there. This is crap and if you can't understand that then I don't know what else I can say.

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Edit: don't take this as a personal attack on you. I understand why you made this and why you think it's a good idea and even to a point i understand why you think forcing open source is a good idea. I just feel like you don't understand how this community really is. Minecraft is a great example of a amazing community with lots of open source mods but because the modding community is so large you can't steal code with out being found out. Our community is so small I can only think of 5 people that would be able even to notice if code has been stolen.

I'm super happy you've made your patch open source and I wish you'd make your client open source too because you'd get a lot of people trying to help out and make the client more and more powerful but modding doesn't work in the same way. People run communities off of their ability to have what no one else does and menu's where just about the last thing we had that could stop people steal our work. Thanks for putting the nail in the coffin I guess.