what i mean is, is it wrong to use a project idea someone else has used before. i think its ok to do this as long as you don't try to pawn it off as your idea (give credit where credit is due) but not entirely sure if one such as myself can use an idea for modding that someone else has used without asking or crediting said person.
for example: as we all know the doom3 project Crimson is so diligently working on, would it be wrong of me or anyone for that matter to take an idea from it (i.e. the airlock front door) for their mod. would i have to credit him in some way?
i understand everyone can't hold a theme as their own (if i made a "snake case", i can't stop or even fault someone else from doing one as well) but some things that are done to a case are simply unique, 1 of a kind, and therefore it would seem that some deal of credit is due to that person for said idea.
to play devil's advocate, how would one go about having "inventor's rights" to an unique idea in the first place? its not like this is the only pc-modding site in existence (though i'm sure most if not all would vote the best ) So how would our most talented modders accredit their ideas collectively?
thought i'd toss that out for the floor, see what it can stir up.
*edit* this should be in the chatterbox, but i can't for the life of me figure out how to move it now that it's posted