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I wanted to make a modpack for friends, but when I read the rules of Curse, I decided to not publish it there. My modpack has many third party mods and some of them are outside of Curse approved mods list so it's obvious it won't even be accepted. But I'm not sure if I can upload my modpack to some cloud like Dropbox, give a link on my Discord server and they will download it and run it in MultiMC. Here's the thing I'm worried about: do I have to ask all mod authors who require permission? Some of them are inactive so it's impossible to have all permissions... or maybe modpacks outside of Curse or any other platform don't require permissions? I just wanna play with friends and not have law problems.
Some mod authors don't want their mods published in public modpacks, the biggest example I can think of being Optifine. Sites like curse and technic most likely won't let you publish a modpack if you include a mod that you're not allowed to have, or will take it down if they're asked.
If you're just distributing it to your friends you should probably be ok. It depends on what license the individual mod author uses, but most generally accept that you can give it around within your group of friends. Even if one says you can't, there's really not much they can do.
As long as you keep it private and don't make any money off it you'll be fine.
Some mod authors don't want their mods published in public modpacks, the biggest example I can think of being Optifine. Sites like curse and technic most likely won't let you publish a modpack if you include a mod that you're not allowed to have, or will take it down if they're asked.
If you're just distributing it to your friends you should probably be ok. It depends on what license the individual mod author uses, but most generally accept that you can give it around within your group of friends. Even if one says you can't, there's really not much they can do.
As long as you keep it private and don't make any money off it you'll be fine.
Thanks for reply! Now I'm sure I can give the modpack to my testers, make a test server, fix bugs and then I'm ready to play with my friends! I will stream this on Twitch, but I guess I can't give the modpack to my viewers? Only a small amount of friends? But that's fine, it's not a revolutionary modpack, just 340+ mods for 1.7.10 including Fastcraft and Advent of Ascension (which is outdated, because newer version has 3x more biome IDs and I ran out of free IDs). No Optifine, because it crashes. Anyway, now I know it's safe for me so I'm gonna do this.
You'll be more safe keeping it to a small group of Friends, if you start offering access to Viewers it may become deemed as a Public pack which in turn may go against some Mod Authors permissions etc.
I wanted to make a modpack for friends, but when I read the rules of Curse, I decided to not publish it there. My modpack has many third party mods and some of them are outside of Curse approved mods list so it's obvious it won't even be accepted. But I'm not sure if I can upload my modpack to some cloud like Dropbox, give a link on my Discord server and they will download it and run it in MultiMC. Here's the thing I'm worried about: do I have to ask all mod authors who require permission? Some of them are inactive so it's impossible to have all permissions... or maybe modpacks outside of Curse or any other platform don't require permissions? I just wanna play with friends and not have law problems.
Some mod authors don't want their mods published in public modpacks, the biggest example I can think of being Optifine. Sites like curse and technic most likely won't let you publish a modpack if you include a mod that you're not allowed to have, or will take it down if they're asked.
If you're just distributing it to your friends you should probably be ok. It depends on what license the individual mod author uses, but most generally accept that you can give it around within your group of friends. Even if one says you can't, there's really not much they can do.
As long as you keep it private and don't make any money off it you'll be fine.
Thanks for reply! Now I'm sure I can give the modpack to my testers, make a test server, fix bugs and then I'm ready to play with my friends! I will stream this on Twitch, but I guess I can't give the modpack to my viewers? Only a small amount of friends? But that's fine, it's not a revolutionary modpack, just 340+ mods for 1.7.10 including Fastcraft and Advent of Ascension (which is outdated, because newer version has 3x more biome IDs and I ran out of free IDs). No Optifine, because it crashes. Anyway, now I know it's safe for me so I'm gonna do this.
You'll be more safe keeping it to a small group of Friends, if you start offering access to Viewers it may become deemed as a Public pack which in turn may go against some Mod Authors permissions etc.
I don't think it matters if you have permission to use a mod in a modpack or not. Public and Private.
what the solution to the problem.