sleeves Posted June 28 Report Posted June 28 I like to avoid closed source mods wherever possible, but doing so requires going to the mods' pages and checking their licenses (if any) on their source repositories. To avoid this, we could have an optional license field in the modinfo spec which contains an SPDX identifier, or ARR (all rights reserved) by default. I'm not sure how this would be best represented on the database, though, given different versions of the same mod could have different licenses. Perhaps the license would display under each changelog?
Seralth Posted yesterday at 11:20 AM Report Posted yesterday at 11:20 AM Honestly it would be ideal if every upload had a mandatory license field. The number of mods iv come across also that do have a license on their source page linked, and then violate their own license tho is rather comically high. So i doubt the mods want to turn into enforces or having to deal with that head ache. Unless they decide to mandate a type of license or a single one for all uploads, which would stream line and simplify the issue. It is likely best that the modDB just doesn't step into that muck at all. If a dev want's to do something other then ARR, then they can do what they already do. Just post it in their readme, the description of the mod or in the zip it self.
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