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Vortex Development
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display on a mod if it is open source or not and where to find the source #15662

Open RustoMCSpit opened 3 months ago

IDCs commented 3 months ago

Hi there @RustoMCSpit,

As you probably know Vortex is highly extensible through it's extension manager functionality to allow the community to add their own game extensions/themes/etc, each have their own way of handling the download of open source mods - most of which will not set the source of the mod correctly, so Vortex will have no idea where that mod came from.

Additionally we can't query whether a mod page provides source information as the site's API does not expose that information. The only way for us to "try" to resolve the source is by parsing the mod's description which is unreliable.

That being said, I'll run through the base code and ensure we expose the source url for external requirements when creating collections etc - will probably add a new attribute to the mod panel when this information is available.

RustoMCSpit commented 3 months ago

could there not be an embedded tag system where people tag the license of the code and its source if open?

RustoMCSpit commented 3 months ago

any update? again i think just having the ability to tag your project's license and source code https link would suffice. then, being able to sort by open source when looking through mods would be cool