When you submit an update to a resource, you are greeted with a message saying that if you are not an author of a resource, don't submit it without an explicit permission. I think this system is very inflexible for code-based resources, as they often contain bugs, limitations, bad comments etc. The sprite moderation team can already modify them, so why not the normal user? What do you think about it? As an author of such a resource would you be fine with it?
Originally posted by Disk Poppy
As an author of such a resource would you be fine with it?
I haven't submitted much of what I've written but I could not care less if updates are submitted, really. Not even simply updates/SA-1 conversions, but should the site really restrict adding new features or better optimized code to old sprites/patches etc just because the original author isn't around to ok it? It seems silly, as I can already download any sprite I want and modify it however I want to, why shouldn't I be able to provide more featureful/more optimized updates to the general userbase that may not have these skills if the resource was already submitted publicly to the site in some form?
It really seems like the rules are currently worded such that the original submitter 'owns' the resources (despite being publicly available), which I rather dislike but won't go into too much, but I would rather like this to be rethought or at least expounded upon.