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mrvn wrote:Except virtually any contribution you make to an other bigger project especially those released under GPL will not transfer ownership. Those that are an exception require paperwork. Transferring ownership is quite complicated. For example to contribute to the GNU project you actually get hired by them for the sum of 1$ in the form of stickers because world wide ownership generally goes to the employer. So please don't claim that virtually any other project takes ownership of contribution. That's rather the exception.

As for credits it is understandable that large projects can't explicitly list every contributer down to people that only changed 1 character in the source. The list would simply become too long and become meaningless. Contributions are normally tracked line by line in the version control system though. You can see that with for example "git blame". And before a license can be changed all those contributors have to agree or the respective code has to be removed. I've seen both of those happen.

Please note what your license prohibits:

1) playing a locally modified version in multiplayer, even if it just fixes a bug. Someone would have to distribute the fix to all players.
2) making and sharing a tar.xz of the mods folder so everybody in a multiplayer game can just unpack that and have the same mods
3) reporting a bug in factorio with a savegame and used modules included. The player would redistribute your mod to the factorio team.
4) posting a fix for a minor problem in the forum since the diff would contain (modified) lines of your code and therefore redistribute it

I'm sure your license has been violated many many times by now.