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Question on Ulysses addon copyright/licensing?
« on: January 02, 2015, 05:29:57 PM »
I've seen a few posts about third-party ULX/ULib downloads, and had a simple question for any Team Ulysses or anyone more knowledgeable than I am:
How exactly do the Team Ulysses projects' licenses work? Do you allow for these third-party distributions, or not?

The reason I ask is because I've stumbled upon a few of these third-party distributions myself, and always redirect users to the proper Github repository wherever I can (e.g. this addon on the Workshop).

My assumption is that this third-party distribution is not allowed under your licensing and/or terms, but I wanted to make sure so I can confirm with some firepower that these are are wrong or refrain from redirecting people to the Github repo.

Thank you for your time.
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Re: Question on Ulysses addon copyright/licensing?
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2015, 09:10:37 PM »
No one else should be distributing ULib or ULX.
As you have probably seen and can imagine, when something breaks, Team Ulysses gets blamed, not the tertiary releaser that didn't keep it up to date or added additional code that broke it.
Or worse, added code that adds backdoors/exploits.
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Re: Question on Ulysses addon copyright/licensing?
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2015, 04:34:05 AM »
Sorry, it was not my intent to republish the addon or break any licenses, I wanted to test ULX on my local server and I'm still trying to get used to the idea of installing mods using the workshop. I have removed the addon, and I will not upload it again.

Sincerely, Rottweiler.

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Re: Question on Ulysses addon copyright/licensing?
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2015, 07:18:31 PM »
Thank you Rottweiler.
Please feel free to make any modules for ULib or ULX and use workshop to distribute if you wish, but as stated, we'd rather not have ULX/ULib distributed.
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