I really like this and thanks for making it, and I also agree that it's probably the best to combine the two instead of just making a port for no-blur-menu, and thus saving everyone an esp slot, but... Have you read the permission page of No more Radial Blur? I'm not trying to be a jerk, but it really may be a good idea to drop the author a message if this combination is okay with them. (Or if you already did that, then make a note on your modpage description that you actually have permission for this )
This whole "permission" thing, is like painting your 911 in yellow and demanding credit from those who make the same, as if Porsche was your property. If you think about it, it's pathetic.
It's pathetic until one receives that perma-ban hammer courtesy of Nexus staff for violating Nexus' STRICT Terms of Service... The rules are there for a reason. Either adhere to the rules that are in place or face the consequences. The moderators don't play games when it comes to the site rules/Terms of Service Rhuunamum. I wouldn't try my luck if I were you...
The fact that a handful of lines in xEdit that change existing content in skyrim.esm are marked as "no, belongs to me, it's mine" is ludicrous. I accidentally recreated No More Radial Blur on my own by changing the settings in xEdit myself, did I commit unintentional piracy?
You can't mark something that is literally just a line tweak without any kind of original asset as your own. That's like taking a copy of the Mona Lisa, coloring her eyes green with crayons and then trying to say that green eyes on the mona lisa belong to you.
At the time when I posted, the mod description said something quite different: "Not exactly my mod, I just combined No radial blur and no blur menu". To me that sounded like the author explicitly took No radial blur, added improvements to it, thus modifying someone else's existing esp, and reuploaded it. And the permissions on that mod say that this is explicitly forbidden. I only suggested to contact that mod's author because of this - and also because it's basic courtesy if you use someone else's work.
Just to be clear, I don't want to sound hostile by any means, and probably I was the first to endorse this mod. I also agree that copyrighting a few xEdit lines would be the same as copyrighting a for loop. (But how was I supposed to know how these mods work?) I just made my initial suggestion based on the ambiguous information I saw at that time.
Not saying there are no consequences. Saying it is pathetic. Nobody can paint their car yellow. I did it first. Doesn't further modding development. Besides, Nexus is full of milkdrinkers, and politically correct snowflakes. If they really think they have "intellectual property" over their mods, let them try and SELL them, and see how fast and furious Bethesda goes. Oh, one can't profit from their intellectual property? Not much of a property then.
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Have you read the permission page of No more Radial Blur?
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but it really may be a good idea to drop the author a message if this combination is okay with them. (Or if you already did that, then make a note on your modpage description that you actually have permission for this
You can't mark something that is literally just a line tweak without any kind of original asset as your own. That's like taking a copy of the Mona Lisa, coloring her eyes green with crayons and then trying to say that green eyes on the mona lisa belong to you.
To me that sounded like the author explicitly took No radial blur, added improvements to it, thus modifying someone else's existing esp, and reuploaded it. And the permissions on that mod say that this is explicitly forbidden.
I only suggested to contact that mod's author because of this - and also because it's basic courtesy if you use someone else's work.
Just to be clear, I don't want to sound hostile by any means, and probably I was the first to endorse this mod. I also agree that copyrighting a few xEdit lines would be the same as copyrighting a for loop. (But how was I supposed to know how these mods work?) I just made my initial suggestion based on the ambiguous information I saw at that time.
Nobody can paint their car yellow. I did it first.
Doesn't further modding development.
Besides, Nexus is full of milkdrinkers, and politically correct snowflakes.
If they really think they have "intellectual property" over their mods, let them try and SELL them, and see how fast and furious Bethesda goes.
Oh, one can't profit from their intellectual property? Not much of a property then.