ATTN: Addon Makers - Rules of content permissions.

[Placebo]

Just a short note, most of you are aware of this stance but just to put it in writing again:

You must have permission to use something
As far as we're concerned, every person who uses something belonging to someone else, must have permission to use it for Flashpoint (if they use it in Flashpoint) and they must have permission to use it in ArmA (if they use it in ArmA). It's not correct to assume that because someone made something available for people to use in Flashpoint that you can use it in ArmA, express permission must be sought with the addon maker.


Need help contacting someone for permission?
Obviously there can be issues in contacting people due to their inboxes being full, them choosing to not make their Email address public, etc. etc. if you're having problems contacting someone to request permission I'm happy to help out, I can get PM's through to people who have full inboxes, I can send Emails to people who keep their Email address hidden, I'm here to help so let me, rather than breaking one of the cardinal rules of the community by using something that isn't yours.

If you want me to help you make contact please do the following:
Send an Email to: with the subject: "Contact for Addon Permissions" (will help it get through the spam filters ) include in there your forum name & the forum name of the person you want me to contact along with links to both of your forum profiles as well as the message you want me to get across to them.

If you make the request via PM I'm only going to reply back "please send the request via Email", sorry

Consequences
Any threads discussing addons/mods using content for which applicable permission has not been sought will be closed, people who break this (rather common) courtesy face being banned from these forums, and probably much worse, face being shunned by the community they want to be part of.

We cannot enforce how people behave or treat the work of other people away from the forums but we can enforce how people behave and treat each other on these forums.

[Placebo]

For now I'll leave this open in case anyone has any questions/suggestions/feedback or whatever

[Manzilla]

Will action be taken by you and other mods if someone releases content on these forums that is found to be in violation? As in remove links, etc.? Just curious if this is a mandate from BIS or just a reminder of community ethics.

Either way it's well said and much appreciated. That holds just a bit more weight then when we say it. Hopefully, people will take you up on your contacting abilities.

[Placebo]

Yes, threads will be closed and the links will be removed, if the member(s) involved were found to deliberately take something without permission they risk a permanent ban from the forums.

[Sparky]

since OFP time , i was wondering.
Do we need permission to use BIS addons, for the same game??
and in particular, for retextures of BIS units, or remodell etc etc...

[RobertHammer]

I think only for outside of Arma , for example CS , CSS , OFP , GTA SA etc.

[ShadowY]

I think that he ment any content...
So if I toy with a addon place a screenshot and trash the addon, then I probably face the same threatment as someone who`s releasing it (as his own)

If the mod/addonmaker starts to make sh*t out of the toying

[vilas]

addon is one thing, but very important is to keep "classnames" different in config too
i remember one situation when one guy did a reskins of my weapons, but he used the same classnames
so it was replacing values on my config
so it is important to keep configs/classes order too
if someone defined for example "my_ammo_762" than other who use his config as refference must use other name for exaple "my_signature_762"
otherwise addons will be conflicting with classnames and player will get silly result or disfunction
so you should not only take care about model, textures (things seen by an eye) but also on classes in config

[Placebo]

since OFP time , i was wondering.
Do we need permission to use BIS addons, for the same game??
and in particular, for retextures of BIS units, or remodell etc etc...

No you do not need BIS' permission for using our stuff within our own games, as long as it's not for any kind of commercial product.

[benreeper]

So does that mean we can use BIS OFP addons in Arma?
--Ben