![]() ![]() Not only that, but redistribution in this way undermines the authors and causes even more problems for them. It's up to the author to determine how and when their addons are distributed. ![]() Your suggestion here asserts that you are unfamiliar with the concept of software licensing. All the WOWmatrix guys would have had to do was set up one account that used the others to keep updated, and then copy the addon files onto their server. *rolls eyes*īasically, As I understand it, WOWmatrix was lazy, and instead of just downloading the addons ONE time and storing them on THEIR server, they just linked directly to them. GJ curse and wowinterface, way to stick it to the 'man'. My mom plays WoW, and guess what? I have to spend my time finding updates for her because it's a lot of work chasing down mod updates now. I absolutely cannot fathom why mod authors talk about how abused they are (supposedly) by WM but at the same time allow sites like Curse to do such a ^&*!-poor job of distributing their mods to the user base (for whom a lot of mod authors seem to hold a HELL of a lot of disdain, as if the grubby masses aren't WORTHY of sullying their mods by actually USING them). I appreciate the arguments against WoWmatrix, but by the same token I fail to understand why nobody is able to come up with something even a tenth as good, but spend an AWFUL lot of effort bashing a product that for all its flaws actually DID WHAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO. UICentral on the other hand had some development snafu (something about a snippet of code that was copyrighted or somesuch) that caused them to yank it and it's been M.I.A. The move of all the Ace mods to Curse has had me seriously contemplating if I want to continue using them, as I truly think Curse is one of the most ass-backwards sites out there, and their updater client was bloody AWFUL, to the point I had to actually torch my entire UI folder and start from scratch because it kept updating with wrong versions, adding mods that were part of completely random mod packs, and installing multiple versions of the same mod in some instances! Post by to using WoWmatrix, I used two different clients to update my mods, WoWAceUpdater (WAU) and UICentral from WoWUI. If you spend 2-3 hours updating your addons on patch day you're doing something wrong. If you are still unsure of the history of the situation, i suggest that you read the following : Services to Authors lack of tools such as version control, forums, issue tracking.Conduct of Behaviour to authors and authorised distributors in the past.One final note as to why many authors(including myself) choose not to have our projects hosted on wowmatrix is for two main reasons : So to summarise, the only up-to-date addons you will through wowmatrix are ones providing permission for wowmatrix to do so (either pre-emptivly via a gpl license or through having siad addon hosted on wowmatrix servers). Note that even if you (as a distributor) do receive permission to re-distribute the addon, you still have no agreement to use the bandwidth of the site hosting the addon other than as a normal user with a browser or their provided clients. providing a gpl license, therefore allowing an addon to be freely distributed as long as the source code and license is included.Īlot of the addons you are getting from wowace have changed their license to 'all rights reserved', which means that to continue distributing the newer version(no longer covered by the gpl) you need to contact the author for distribution.Wowmatrix is only providing you with addons that are : The addons you think you are getting, are quite old. Actually quite a few addons are still available at least 75% of mine are available and the rest are still working. ![]()
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