Few things I want to say:
1. In the end of the 1st post of
The Official Permissions Thread there's a link to this thread, which is broken. It leads to gene-rally.com instead of forum.generally-racers.com. Could this be fixed by someone?
2. I know that egamad said that he wouldn't like to change the format anymore, but I would like to add there a section, on which authors would list the works that were released without a readme file, so that people would know, for which works author's post in the permission thread will apply and for which works they will have to find a readme file to see the correct permissions for sharing and competition usage. Now the 1st post of The Official Permissions Thread states that "
if there is a readme file released with any author work, the possible permissions in that file override authors general permissions for that work", which means that people should make sure that no readme file exists for the work one wants to use before they can rely on these general permissions. If there would be a list of works released without readme, those, who would like to use something, would know immediately that, if the work is on the list, then it can be shared without a readme in the way stated on these general permissions, and if the work isn't on the list, then one has to find and keep the readme intact before sharing.
I think that the list could done by adding following kind of section in the end of current format:
6: Addons released without readme:
CARS: Either names of all cars released without a readme or ALL, if all of author's cars have been released without a readme, or NONE, if none of author's cars have been released without readme (in other words; NONE, if all of author's cars have been released with a readme).
TRACKS: Either names of all tracks released without a readme or ALL, if all of author's tracks have been released without a readme, or NONE, if none of author's tracks have been released without readme.
SOUNDS: Either names of all sounds released without a readme or ALL, if all of author's sounds have been released without a readme, or NONE, if none of author's sounds have been released without readme.
PALETTES: Either names of all palettes released without a readme or ALL, if all of author's palettes have been released without a readme, or NONE, if none of author's palettes have been released without readme.
OTHER: Either names of all other addons released without a readme or ALL, if all of author's other addons have been released without a readme, or NONE, if none of author's other addons have been released without readme.
For example: Trigger Happy wants to organize a competition, in which he uses my car Onewheeler and my track Dortuyi, but he doesn't find readme files for them from his computer, even though most of my works have readme files. So, he is wondering, whether he has lost those readme files or whether there was readme files at all for those addons. Then he could come here to see that with Dortuyi there originally wasn't a readme file intact, so he can share it without readme. But my Onewheeler was released with a readme file intact, so he then knows he has to download it again to get the readme before he can share it.
The list would be a great help in this kind of situations.
That came to my mind, when I was thinking, how people could easily be sure, for which addons these general permissions will apply, especially in cases, when some of author's addons have been released without a readme and some have been released with a readme. (Like in my case: general permissions apply only to 3 of my tracks, which were released without a readme file, but doesn't apply to a big part of my GR works, which have readme files.)
So, what you think about this, egamad and others too?
3. There's still way too few posts in The Official Permissions, even though many authors do not include readme files with their addons.
If you haven't included a readme file with every addon you have released,
GO IN THE OFFICIAL PERMISSIONS THREAD AND POST YOUR PERMISSIONS THERE! (Unless you have already done that.)