[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by RustyAU

Oooooorrrrr... the mod could be updated by someone NEW, who then credits the mod as being written by Zoints - upgraded to v.4.xx by <MODDERS NAME HERE>.

This way Zoints retains their 'ownership' (for whatever THAT'S worth after all this time) and the upgraded version is then able to be used by those of us DESPERATE for it!

If Zoints care enough to get annoyed - personally I'll be highly surprised. More likely they'll shrug and continue to ignore it. If not, they can ask for it to be handed BACK to them fully, at which point we can all then throw rubbish at them and point out their dubious ancestory.

No it does not work like that. Another coder can't release updated code as a new mod without the author's prior permission regardless of whether they say it was originally created by Zoints or not. The only time a coder can do that is if the original mod was marked as "Re-usable Code" which this mod is not.

Without Zoints permission the only other option is to code new from scratch or if someone wanted to post instructions in this thread for the steps they personally took to upgrade it to 4.x they could share that.