No amount of polls is going to change anything, and they deserve respect for their work. So, I say respect the dev team's wishes and move on. Having to parse it out into plain english for (presumably less skilled) modders to understand might take a little or a whole lot of time that might be better spent in more development.
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But maybe they don't even document it for themselves outside of the bare minimum that along with the code makes sense to them. Would it be great to have everything nice and neatly documented? Yes. Of course, if they were ok with that, then they could share it.Īs far as documentation, everything takes time. If my code, or their code, goes out, anyone can then take it, corrupt it into something else, and nobody could stop them. Not only because there's some proprietary encryption and obfuscation of files that I don't want getting out to the users, but because it's my work over the past two years. I have several large programming projects I do, and I keep them closed source. Technical documentation is a huge undertaking and would massively increase their workload.
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Let's not forget they already develop OpenIV in their free time - they have actual jobs as software engineers in their normal hours that needs their attention first. Their decision.ĭocumentation would be great if the team had the resources and time to create it. However these tools are not magically better due to the community input, the code just sits there barely being used. Thirdly, people who could contribute meaningfully to OpenIV would have contributed to other similar tools that already ARE open-sourced. Secondly barely anybody could contribute to it as Delphi is quite rare. It wouldn't be legal in the first place for the team to distribute these - irrespective of whether or not others have already done so. No to open-source, yes to documentation (if they have time and resources).Īs has been said, OpenIV uses proprietary libraries such as the Xbox SDK, among others, and contains all the RAGE encryption keys. (I would've voted without posting, but I figured I probably shouldn't vote on a poll while having a post count of zero just doesn't seem right. Of course, both the state of OpenIV and its developers' research are up to those developers, and voting here doesn't affect their decisions at all, so I guess I have no choice but to leave it up to them.
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Mods are made by and for the community and anything that could help out the modding community at large should be done. If the OpenIV team have information they're not sharing that would help out the modding community as a whole, they should share it. The community ought to respect their decision, and more to the point the community ought to stop begging them to go open-source when the OpenIV team have already made their position on that issue clear.ĭocumentation of their findings, on the other hand, really shouldn't be kept locked away. The OpenIV team clearly don't ever want their program to go open-source, and it's their call what happens to that program. Pressuring someone to hand over something that does not belong to you and have no right to, is classified as online bullying these days. It is not your right or anyone elses right to be pressuring individual forum members to hand over something that they have spent so much of their life creating, nobody has a right to anyone elses life and that's what that source code represents, it's their time from their life, and you cannot buy extra time or extra life, stop trying to demand theirs when you're not prepared to sacrifice your own to learn this stuff for yourself, because you're too lazy to put the effort in and want shortcuts for everything in life, that's not how things work. Why is it that this current generation seem to think they're owed something ? and why is it that they completely fail to respect anything or anyone when they say no to something ? You have no rights to demand source code, it belongs to them, it's their work, it's their time that's gone into it, and it's their choice whether they release it or not, and they said no, This topic has no right to even be up for debate, a group of people chose to spend their spare time researching this and creating their own code, and then they chose to share their tools with the community, and they've done it for free.
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