Originally Posted by Tyx
Depends on the licence I would say.
If it has a open source licence: Feel free to fork it and fix it. If not you need the permission of the author to post a fix/patch if you use part of his code in it (if the author did not explicitly allow it somewhere).
This is from a legal standpoint (of my understanding, not a lawyer and can differ from country to country), but in reality, I don't think any author has something against a patch. At least I wouldn't  |
Well, some authors do have their misgivings on people modifiying and redistributing their addons, so buyers beware. It's not always wounded pride as someone might think, there are some valid concerns like that it would end up with too many versions floating around, with one fixing bug A, another fixing bug B, and a third one fixing neither of them but adding another feature, and so on and so forth. See Android distributions for example. (Nope, this isn't Android bashing, just a statement of fact)
If you see an open source license which allows you to adapt and share, you're usually on the safe side because that means the author of the addon has given his permission in advance, given that you comply to the terms of the license, with the most likely terms to leave the license text itself intact as well as the original author names.