Recent content by michagogo

The page doesn't specify any kind of requirement. It says that it would be nice if you link back, and mentions that you want to know about people using it, but it doesn't specify that telling you anything is a requirement or prerequisite for that permission I'm sorry if that's how you perceived...

No, it's not. My message was a link to the page where permission is given to "Anyone" to "use our mod in their map or mod pack" :)

Not really necessary...

With both of your specific examples, yes, with a couple conditions. See the License section of the Forestry download page and the Mod Packs section (spoiler) on the Thaumcraft forum thread.

Sure, according to some, or maybe even many, people. But I have seen people use "open source" to refer to merely visible source. And also, many people will just not know, and think "oh, I can find the source code. That means it's open source and I can take it."

The thing is, "able to get" doesn't mean "legally allowed to get and redistribute". In theory, a mod could be out there, with all the source code exposed, but without a license that allows you to take that code and redistribute it. The original author still owns the copyright unless he or she...

Being open for anyone to use in modpacks and being open source are two, orthogonal things. Saying "ie open source", which expands to "That is, open source" (i.e. == id est (latin) == that is) implies that being open source means being free (as in speech) and/or that being free means being open...

Sorry, all taken.