Neeum Zawan <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
> On 07/13/09 07:09, Warp wrote:
> > Neeum Zawan<m.n### [at] ieeeorg>  wrote:
> >>          Were those mods technically illegal? Valve hadn't given permission in
> >> general to make mods?
> >
> >    I think that if Valve had wanted, they could have prohibited all mods of
> > their game. It's not unprecedent.

>         Yes, but what I'm asking is did they give explicit permission before 
> those mods were released, or did they simply accept them after the fact?

  I don't know, but given that modding of FPS games is quite hard without
explicit support from the game, I'd say they supported modding from the
start (similarly to how, for example, Id Software has always done).

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                                                          - Warp

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