If you have questions about the GPLv3 you should seek advice available on the web. This document will attempt to answer some common questions. Q: Do I have to release my changes to your modlet? A: No. The GPL does not require you to release a modified version of this modlet or any derivitive works made from the POIs. Do what you want with the content for your own private amusement. If, however, you decide to release some or all of this modlet or the POIs within, including derivitive works, then you cannot constrain others from the files necessary to make derivitive works. Q: Do I have to notify you before I distribute my changes? A: No, The GPL does not require you to notify me for you to use it or redistribute some or all of this modlet or its POIs. However, I like knowing when people do. (It makes me feel good.) Notifying me gives me the opportunity to learn about your project and perhaps pass along suggestions. For the price of an email, maybe you could make me happy... zztong@gmail.com Q: Why bother with a license? Isn't "public domain" good enough? A: Sure, 99/100 times public domain is good enough. But when civility ends, the law begins. STREAMERS, YOUTUBE, TWITCH, ETC. I believe the GPLv3 grants you the license you need to include this modlet's content in your videos and streams. If you find otherwise, please let me know. It should also allow persons to make and use photographs and screen captures. COMPOPACK I don't believe the GPLv3 prohibits the CompoPack in any way. That is, I recognize the CompoPack needs to make derivitive works in order to maintain the consistency and integrity of the CompoPack. Derivitive works of my POIs are fine, so long as they're still bound by the GPLv3. The CompoPack as I know it seems to be well within the spirit of the matter. CURATED MODLETS I don't believe the GPLv3 prohibits my POIs from appearing in "Curated Modlets" in any way. By that, I mean if you want to make a modlet for your server to distribute to your users that should be fine. Similarly, if you want to make a "Top 100 POIs" modlet, that should be fine too. (I would be flattered to be among them.) Redistribution is fine so long as my POIs are still bound by the GPLv3. OVERHAUL MODS I don't believe the GPLv3 prohibits Overhaul Mods from making derivitive works of these POIs or from distributing those works, so long as these POIs are still bound by the GPLv3. Overhaul Mods like to introduce new code and artistic works. I don't believe any code or artistic works related to custom blocks is encumbered by this license because those work products are not part of these POIs or derivitives of these POIs. That is, derivitive POIs my have references to the code and artistic works that embody a custom block but those references do not represent a claim of any type over the code or artistic works that define the custom blocks. Similarly, the POIs do not claim any rights over the block definitions that clearly belong to The Fun Pimps and are distributed with the 7 Days to Die game. That is to say, a POI is just an expression of how blocks should be arranged and displayed, not the underlying blocks themselves. THE FUN PIMPS The license for the game 7 Days to Die ensures The Fun Pimps can do pretty much anything they want to with my POIs. Quoting from their license: "The Software may allow you to create content, including but not limited to a gameplay map, screenshot or a video of your game play. In exchange for use of the Software, and to the extent that your contributions through use of the Software give rise to any copyright interest, you hereby grant Licensor an exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, fully transferable and sub-licensable worldwide right and license to use your contributions in any way and for any purpose in connection with the Software and related goods and services, including the rights to reproduce, copy, adapt, modify, perform, display, publish, broadcast, transmit, or otherwise communicate to the public by any means whether now known or unknown and distribute your contributions without any further notice or compensation to you of any kind for the whole duration of protection granted to intellectual property rights by applicable laws and international conventions. You hereby waive any moral rights of paternity, publication, reputation, or attribution with respect to Licensor’s and other players’ use and enjoyment of such assets in connection with the Software and related goods and services under applicable law. This license grant to Licensor, and the above waiver of any applicable moral rights, survives any termination of this License." This seems fair to me, especially since some of my POIs are derivitive works of theirs. Since the relationship is going to be this close, it might as well be incestuous.