Originally Posted by pmats
I work for Brothersoft. Here is the thing. Somebody submitted and published addons for the World of Warcraft in Brothersoft.com. And we are totally not aware of any details about the author, the license and relvevant promotion conditions about that. But we are now dealing with some letters from authors indeed.
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Well Mr pmats if you're still here , your submission policies don't sound very safe.
You should be treating addons exactly like every other piece of software that gets uploaded to your servers.
IE you should check that the person uploading that piece of software is actually the author of said piece of software.
Otherwise you're not only creating more work for an addon author . You're also potentially defaming that addon author.
I don't accept the whole "but it'll make it easier on people to find x addon" excuse. There's things like google , curse , wow interface or that are better equipped for people wanting to find addons.
When someone uploads an addon without an author's permission 75% of the time they don't keep up with uploading later versions , don't keep up with answering comments and don't offer the end users any shred of support.
Of course the addon users don't know this all they know is they downloaded it from SomeSiteA and when they have a problem with it they either post something on SomeSiteA or go bug the author about it. About a bug the author has probably already fixed. Of course when the author doesn't respond on SomeSiteA then users start assuming the author is being lax , hasn't updated or just doesn't care.
Now can you imagine if someone uploaded a keylogger in a .exe file for a populour addon to your site. What you think will happen then ? That author gets defamed _even_ _more_