would you please remember and care to include licenses when publishing your awesome work?
Years pass. The collection of publicly available mod get's bigger and bigger by month or year. Over time, navigating through it get's time consuming and difficult. Tools like automatic mod managers, modpacks and guides help to manage this complexity. Possibility to redistribute modder's work helps greatly. Not everyone wishes to share, and it's everyone's right to make such decision. However, a clause which makes a mod redistributable if, e.g., authors offline for X years, can keep the mod alive. A world in which you can use a mod manager to automatically download and install a modlist composed by other community member would make using mods way easier.
On the other side, if a mod has no license and the author isn't active anymore, it threatens the mod livelihood. File hostings die with years, which can make the mod disappear altogether. New bugs may emerge, which won't be fix if other people aren't allowed to work on the mod. New compatibility issues may arise, which also won't be solved. A permissive license attached to the files can prevent all those issues.
Thank you for the time spent on reading this post,
BaronPampa
P.S. It's my first post - hello
