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Originally Posted by King Kovifor
We aren't here to force users to update their modifications.
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ill give a good example, the mod "browser on whos online" it has a serious problem and needs to be updated, but the maker doesnt seem interested, so i dunno, i would think its better to let someone else than let it fall to a graveyard
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=133784
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Usually if a modification is popular enough and worth using then problems that arise in it can typically have a patch or some code changes posted in the thread to help people out who are having the problems. I know I have been releasing minor patches to quite a few mods I have been working with lately to help the author out as well as the users in the meantime while we wait on the original author to update it. As for it going to the graveyard I believe that is usually reserved for mods that authors have pulled as well as modifications that have had security exploits found in them where it is unsafe to let them be used all over the internet (correct me if im wrong here).
------Some more thoughts I had after I wrote that reply------
Im just amazed at how some people take the coders right for granted and the fact that we were kind enough to release the code in the first place when we just could have held onto it. If you dont like the fact that a coder may not update his work and it may just sit there then try to get ahold of him and find out if you can get the rights to have somebody update it. Not to mention coders have lives to. We aren't hear to just provide you with stuff you want just because you want it. We create concepts and code them out whether it be a concept we developed for our site or something we were hired to make or something we made out of generosity for the community, and these concepts have our names attached to them as well as took our time to make them. Now yes sometimes we have things in life that come up and we may not update a mod for quite some time or we may change focus of what we are working on to focus on more important things such as client work or additional code modifications that we need ourselves. When this happens after a while its reasonable to want to take over one of these mods but there is a proper way todo this and that would involve contacting the original author as only he can wave the rights he owns over the code and thats how it should be. He may chose to let you have the rights to the code or he may very well say no. I know I am very picky about what code of mine I give the rights away on even if its for say a modification that I havent updated in say 6 months as I may just not have had time to update it and still have plans to update the code and since I already spent so much time on the work why would I want to give somebody else the work when i have every intention on updating it again and don't like the idea of my code being taken over by others for a few reasons (see list below).
Reasons Coders Chose not to give rights away to code they have created:
1) I created it and plan on updating it (this usually means the coder is extremely busy)
2) I don't want just anybody taking over my code as it has my name attached to it and there are quite a few coders out there that don't write code that I would call Clean, Easy to understand (self documenting, well structured code), Optimized, and or Secure code.
3) I spent a considerable amount of time on it and may feel that there are currently no updates which I need to make at the time.
4) Not saying I wont give you the rights if I trust you will do good things with the code I have created and know that you will give credit where credit is due.
and finally the most important
5) I created it and its my code to do what I want with.
If you ever want to take over a modification from somebody and they say no or are unreachable you should have the knowledge and ability to create the mod from scratch so feel free to make a new one but it has to be your own code (dont reference the original in the process of making it as then you aren't creating your own ideas for it). If you don't have the talent to make the modification from scratch then you shouldn't even be asking to take it over.
06-25-2008, 05:41 PM
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