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Originally Posted by goldorak
Forgive me if I'm being boneheaded, but wouldn't the classified part be in the database values. Can you qualify a low polygon 3d model classified ? Really ?
If they are so afraid, why don't they let the community make the 3d model/s with the different stations and then SCS would fill in the blanks interfacing the 3d model/stations with the navalsimengine. Win-win for everyone. The modders are not sued because they haven't actually modified anything and SCS is the only one to know how to "integrate" the models with the navalsimengine.
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I've asked Jamie a similar question back when, the answer I got in regard to using community mods by SCS is basically a big legal issue. Even if the modders would sign a big bunch of papers saying that they forgo any rights and whatever on their mods and SCS can freely use all their work and so on it still would be a problem of sorts.
This issue was adressed when the first LwAmi was released before patch 1.03. One of the major problems back then was the lack of difference between VLADs and DIFARs ... LwAmi adressed this plus some other issues and we asked why SCS not simply uses Lwami for their next patch and puts in some improvements of their own. The aforementioned statement came from Jamie as response.
Bottom line (considering that statement) at the moment thus is that anything developed in the community can only be distributed by the community and while it might be official endorsed by SCS it cant be part of a patch for example.
As for porting over stuff from their military developments ... aside from classification issues is that the NSE has been branched off and the branch for goverment purposes has been continually developed further ... depending on how they did their coding this might pose a serious technical problem when converting or using fixes from one branch for the other. At least thats my guess.