So for testing purposes I have a distribution mechanism. It is very manual and I cannot use it to distribute widely as that would break the "private server" clause I adhere to. The people who get access to that link are the ones on the RR testing server, and they put up with a fair sum of instability for that right.
Yeah, I know that, still, people will always want the latest things with as little effort - why do you always see tons of peoe asking to et on forge craft for example? Not because they want to test the mods, becaus they want new stuff faster, without having to download Jenkins builds and whatever, having it all distributed via Dropbox or whatever.
I understand completely your private clause, and how you cannot break that, for if such a thing were to happen you'd become the new Kakermix.
If you'd like to work with me to assemble the "totally free to redistribute" buildpack that people can use as a starting point, that'd be rad too.
As in find all the mods with open/open if distributed via ftb mods and assemble the most stable versions of them together?
And include separate links that direct to the mod authors adf'ly link to download the mod for the no-permission ones?
And then seek permissions on mods that require the permissions etc?
And what will you do about rail craft? Will it be a direct people to the newest version, or will you always be a week behind?
Also, apparently ichun can be very hard to get permissions off...
And Thaumcraft, it's only allowed to be distributed via ftb, does this mean all ftb approved packs, or just all packs made solely by the ftb pack team?
Same with thaumatic bees, MysteriousAges policy is; if you're allowed forestry and Thaumcraft ie the essential mods for this to run, you can use my mod. Will this let us destribute this in the main build, and yet have a redirect for Thaumcraft itself?
Also, I have no idea in Calclavia and co.'s mod pack opinion, however it appears that contacting him is very difficult, so if he doesn't offer blanket permission, we may have problems.