Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26229251-20170209114717/@comment-26172435-20170209124719

I have a more informed answer as we discussed options to modify the mod for the use on the First Age and Second Age servers last year with Mevans and his mod team buddies.

Although Mevans did grant permission for modifying the mod, he eventually appeared unwilling to enable it as he feared he had to unveil the source code for that purpose to others than himself. Despite several attempts to decompile and recompile the mod without the source code, supported by Mevans, we we not succesful in getting a stable result and disbanded our attempts and tried to find a way that would enable the modmodding without endangering Mevans' intellectual property rights, for instance by settling things in an agreement or by creating a submod that would only hold part of the code, notably the biome and alignment class files. After about 5 months Mevans' answered via a mod team member, via someone connected to them, via a server owner, to me, that he would not support any of such options and that's where the discussion ended.

So, it is encouraged, but not effectively supported. Hence, it cannot be done.