Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27506967-20170521225234/@comment-25330335-20170522142819

AlteOgre wrote: Three words on the LOTRmod and the option of open sourcing:

Intellectual Property Rights

Alte, how much experience do you have with Open-source software development? Almost all open-source licenses preserve the author's copyright rights and other rights. It just depends on the license you choose. It's one of the reasons that open-source is so popular.

For those of you who are worried about multiple forks, and controlling contributions.

First, most projects are tracked using git, which is one of the most popular revision control systems. If anyone would want to contribute to the mod, they would have to make changes to their copy, then ask for their changes to be merged. Their changes could be reviewed by the mod team, and don't necessarily have to be added. This applies to literally everything.

Also, in my experience, it takes a lot of momentum to get a good fork of a large piece of software moving. I doubt that any forks of this mod would have enough momentum to do that.