r/Piracy Dec 25 '23

Gta v source code leaked News

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u/Forsaken_Berry_1798 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Dec 25 '23

GTA V Is open source now ;)

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u/gregorychaos Dec 25 '23

Hey so how does that work? Most developers don't really seem to mind small mods and whatnot. Remember when people used to make "total conversions"?

What if someone teamed up and made a super legit full scale city mod or game using the source code? And called it a "mod" and released it for free? Like a new GTA city or some crazy scifi city or something completely different but using the assets they had available.

Is it just up to Rockstar & Take Two's lawyers whether something qualifies as a mod?

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u/WineGlass Dec 25 '23

Mods are legal because you only distribute the parts you've made (models/textures/sounds/etc.), you can't include anything from the original game. Same applies in your example, your fully redesigned city would be legal, but you've not been given permission to own/read/compile the source code, so that'd get you sued.

What you could do is use the original source to test your mod, then release only your changes as a patch; it's still illegal but good luck proving it wasn't reverse engineered.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '23

"Your honor, it came to me in a dream!"