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[SlimeOfSteel]

Title.

To go into a bit more detail of what I mean, I'm not talking about stealing someone else's Lua (or Ruby) file and passing it off as your own. I mean using a fragment of someone else's code.

For example, let's say I wanted to make a ListPrompt (from the guiScript class). I'm not sure what the format is, so I take a look at a pre-existing file with a functional ListPrompt to see the proper syntax.

Or, let's say I wanted to add a new item to a table of the same type. I look at an existing file, see the code used (like one or two lines), and copy it into my code.

If I do that, is that wrong? I don't want to piss off anybody by mistake. I'm not exactly a Lua professional, so I tend to look at other code files and try and learn why the parts of the code work the way they do.

[Telgin]

I doubt most people would care, but if you take a nontrivial amount of code from someone else's mod (say, taking a nontrivial Lua function, or a creature's RAWs), it would be good etiquette to mention where you got it from in comments or by mentioning it in a post where you release your mod.

If you're just referencing someone else's code to see how a particular Lua function is used or something, then that's different.  Presumably any code calling that function has to work that way, which you could have learned from any possible source and really isn't special or specific to someone else's work.  In that case, attributing it would be kind of overkill.

[Warlord255]

Sorry, I've got a trademark on [CURIOUSBEAST_GUZZLER] now. I'll be requiring a cut of your Twitch revenue every time a bear attacks your fort.

...just kidding, it's all open source, per Toady One's decree. Just credit other mods for borrowed content or inspiration.

[Enemy post]

Sorry, I've got a trademark on [CURIOUSBEAST_GUZZLER] now. I'll be requiring a cut of your Twitch revenue every time a bear attacks your fort.

In that case, I'm claiming AT_PEACE_WITH_NATURE. All your cats are belong to us.

[Eric Blank]

Youre no longer allowed to use dragonfire, fire jets, or fireballs. Theyre mine. So is any interaction that causes a transformation into a creature that has a body part that falls off when a connected body part made of a tissue that boils away at room temperature is done dissolving. Inb4 that other guy that actually came up with that method lol

In all seriousness, nobody will really care, as long as you at least mention where you took something from, if at all. Everybodys raws will end up similar anyway because on certain things theres an order in which tokens must be listed, and for the rest, theres a precedent for organization in a similar fashion to the vanilla raws, kinda.

[scamtank]

We're all building the same crusty puke-soaked idiot ass-backwards cathedral here.

[Klisz]

Square brackets are now copyright Klisz. If you use them in any of your raws, you must give me at least half your money in royalties.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Square brackets are now copyright Klisz. If you use them in any of your raws, you must give me at least half your money in royalties.

Money that is generated regardless of source** Tax the man like the Dirty Govt.