K2W wrote:
If you wish to be perfectly gentle, you must communicate original modder and get permition of all your action for his works always, and if you can't do that, even when he closed his sites and gone from YS community, you should stop your selfish.
If you neglect these tiresome protocol, you should always be prepared your mind for these trouble, even you make any bylaws which is effective among only you.
I think he means, we should at least contact the original modder and ask for permission if we can't find or understand written terms of use. If you can't contact them and they are no longer around or their addons and links are gone, do not attempt to reupload or modify, since you may most likely violate their protocols. If you don't bother trying to contact or ignore trying to respect their absence, you should expect problems.
^Am I getting this right? If so, I respect that we should always contact when in doubt, or just period. I do not really agree with the absence policy though. If a site or link becomes broken, I think it should be allowed that someone re-post or re-upload it so people can access it again. Otherwise, that person's work is just lost forever. Even the original creator loses out because now they have 1 less addon with their name on it, and thus are going to be forgotten. I do agree that it shouldn't be modified if you can't contact them. That would be understandable and respectable.
That is of course, just my opinion. I am glad to see more people from the Japanese community weighing in. It sounds like it is less of a crisis as it has been made out to be, and really just needs to be a change in policy and the way we do things from this point on. If there's anything previous we can salvage, that could be done too, but going back on the vast majority of addons is still a huge mistake.