Licenses of Addons and stuff like that

Lightbound · 09-18-14, 06:29 AM

Hey there!

I got some properly simple questions about the licenses of AddOns. For example the WoW Instant messenger got two "bugs" for me.

First it doesnt display Hearthstone. Should be kinda easy to add since D3 and SC2 is already in it.

Secound it doesnt show Monks properly. It seems like they are into it but ye. Wont work for me.

So the last AddOn update was from 05/24/13. How is that stuff going? I couldnt find a license file or something like that.

Would i be able to update or fix it somehow without getting invited on there curse dev thing? (Just a example properly wont do that)

I guess otherwise i had to copy paste the addon and fix it and upload ist. In generall that just would be a copy of the AddOn with a modification. Wouldnt like it myself to see someone copy my stuff and call it his after adding 2 lines.

The other option would be to write like a fix addon that does the above things but i dont belive tht this works since even if you mount functions the old stuff int he default wim folder is still there so you get liek two different codes with the same stuff.

I hope it is somehow understandable. A better example would be a outdated AddOn in general WIM is still working and not that hard "outdated" so .. ye, not the best example.

TOM_RUS · 09-18-14, 06:52 AM

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/wim-3 last updated 12 April 2014
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...Messenger.html last updated 14 May 2014
You most likely using outdated version.

Lightbound · 09-18-14, 07:21 AM

Well just failed in terms wowinterface is listing the addons. It was just a example and i did put the previous version in the example.

As i sayd its just a example and the errors are still there. So if we imagine they wont get fixxed or i would like to do modifications / based on older addons stuff how would it look than?

I mean the syntax of a programming language is "hardcoded" so if i want to write a own chat addon i properly would have like more than the half of the code as it is in WIM of course there are differnt options to get the result so you can clearly see if something is copyed or not so that is my question in general.

Actually not that hard to explain but i tryed to get a story around it to explain it "worse"

Sjak · 09-18-14, 07:31 AM

I mean the syntax of a programming language is "hardcoded" so if i want to write a own chat addon i properly would have like more than the half of the code as it is in WIM of course there are differnt options to get the result so you can clearly see if something is copyed or not so that is my question in general.

I can guarantee that you wouldn't even use 10% of the same code if you implemented every single feature WIM has and tried to make it look identical. There might be a set syntax but it's basically impossible to implement everything the exact same way that WIM (or any non-trivial piece of software) does without looking at its code beforehand and consciously copying it.

jeffy162 · 09-18-14, 07:33 AM

WoWAce has an Alpha version of W.I.M. for WoW 5.4.8 (r430) released on 8/22/2014. Latest one so far.

/EDIT: DOH!! This is what happens when you're a slow typist and you look everything up while typing the post.

Lightbound · 09-18-14, 07:43 AM

Already tryed out the alpha. Monks still just display the battle.net icon and ye hearthstone would properly not have been added since there is not such a icon.

Anyways, thanks for the information. Im definitly not into that license stuff.

p3lim · 09-18-14, 09:06 AM

Originally Posted by Lightbound

hearthstone would properly not have been added since there is not such a icon.

I don't know where you get your information, but the icon has been in the game since may 2013 (patch 5.3):

https://github.com/Gethe/wow-ui-text...tIcon-WTCG.PNG

Lightbound · 09-18-14, 09:28 AM

WIM is using own icons and there Hearthstone is missing

http://i.imgur.com/2JiOT8Z.png

So i did guess that they didnt add the function to track Hearthstone c:.

**Seerah** · 09-18-14, 06:25 PM

So why not contact WIM's author, sylvanaar, or another of its authors as listed on Curse and either ask about your issue or offer your fix?

Also, on Curse it specifically states that WIM is All Rights Reserved.