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Bowbee / MoveAnything

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Any chance for a community fork, please? #8

Open Voxxel opened 1 year ago

Voxxel commented 1 year ago

Hi there Bowbee,

Did you change your mind about updating the addon to Dragonflight yet? I know you care a lot about the licensing and respecting the work of other programmers. But probably you could easily take over the maintenance of MA exaclty the way Resike, the current author, owner, maintainer did in Mists of Pandaria. The same way he took it over from Wagthaa, the maintainer when that guy quit WoW. And the same way as Wagthaa took over from a previous maintainer in WotLK, and so on and so on. They haven't run into any licensing problems, why would you?

Btw the history of MA, list of owners/maintainers can be found in this topic: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/move-anything/issues/1343

Also, while respecting other people's work it's nonsence to watch a useful addon die just because its maintainer got tired of WoW and left. Especially nonsense if the assumptions prove to be true about Resike as he's keeping "his" addons only as baits in the water to fetch out donations from the most desperate players of WoW.

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After all, you're free to make whatever changes you want to MoveAnything while it's on your own github page but an updated project on Curse would also be nice, similar to how other coders updated famous addons recently, such as TipTac or idTip: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/search?category=&search=idtip

Any kind of update here or there would be hugely appreciated.

Voxxel commented 1 year ago

A perfect example how an addon with All-Right-Reserved licence could reborn on CF without any actual permission of the long-gone owner:

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/tiptac-reborn and the "workaround" topic: https://github.com/frozn/TipTac/issues/106