Release Guidelines

Release Guidelines

All topics that do not follow these guidelines are subject to modification or removal by a moderator.

• Your release must be of your own creation, unless explicit permission from the original author is given.
  • Paid works may not be posted unless you are the original author.
• Include a detailed description in your post; typically three or more sentences should suffice.
• Releasing pre-compiled plugins can cause errors/warnings.

• Script, source, database, and plugin releases may not include any malicious or watermarked code^*.

• Code-based releases must be tested and error-free on Hercules emulators.

• Links to external hosting for your file(s) must not require user registration to download the file(s).

• Include a changelog for updates to your release(s); do no create duplicate topics for the same release.

• Pre-Compiled Plugins are not allowed to be released.

  • Comments and headers are exempt from watermarking guidelines.

Please keep in mind that all posted content is released under the GNU General Public License v3; if you would like to protect your work, you should consider obtaining copyright (US) or a Creative Commons license. These guidelines are subject to change at any time.

*Example of watermarked code:

-    script    LameRO_Healer    -1,{        

  percentheal 100,100;
  specialeffect2 313;
  mes "[LameRO Healer]";
  mes "This script is provided by LameRO! Tell the world!";
  close2;
  announce "LameRO is the best! Yeah! Wooo!", bc_all;
  end;
}

Updated: January 27th 2014