TES Nexus added an explicit permissions system a little while back. The relevant one here is:
Users can use assets contained in my files in their own files.Three of my mods are in the compilation linked above. One of them was uploaded before the permissions system was in place, and I hadn't updated it, so it had the default answer to this question:
Absolutely not under any circumstances. (I just changed that.) The other two had the answer that I set myself:
Not without permission from me first.These mods are only available from Nexus, specifically so I don't have to worry about managing this sort of info in multiple places. I was never contacted about inclusion of any of them. (I've been contacted about mods before, mind you. But not these.)
Had I been contacted, my answer would have been
yes as long as there was a note like Anonimousone's #1 above. I've stated this exact position many times.
But there wasn't even the vaguest effort. I'm not hard to find, I put my email address in all the readme files. And if I wasn't contacted, I can't trust that anyone else was either (even without Arthmoor's similar comment above). This compilation is a perfect example of why nobody here trusts compilation organizers: they clearly have no respect whatsoever for the author. The "contact me, not them" note is
courteous but that's not the same thing.
I'm not saying the compilation organizers are bad people with bad intentions. They just have raging superiority complexes. The attitude here is: "I know better than you do, how to properly display your work. I'm sure everyone's better off if it's done my way, and my certainty of that matters more than your opinion on the subject. So I'm just going to
take your work, and present it my way. It's for the greater good." I keep seeing accusations that mod authors are elitist, but
this behavior is textbook elitism.
Even if I personally
agree with their distribution philosophy, I absolutely will not support any project that doesn't care if an author
doesn't agree.
BTW Anonimousone, good job editing out your #4. You were going to get flooded with examples.