TCL scripts being rewritten.

Yourname · Post by **Yourname** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 3:57 pm

Hi,

This doesnt mean you shud'nt answer my old previous post.
But this is to voice something that I think others have in mind too.

Well, the scripts being submitted to the archive are (most of the times) rewritten, or simply modified. Did anyone observe that? re-written is alright.. esp. by known scripters, but all of a suden, rewritten sudenly begins to mean that the putlogs are changed. And modified means, the author names/script name, etc are changed.

Isnt this so?

/me is disturbed.

PS: And YEAH! If you're from Scarborough, Ontario reply to my previous post!!!

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 5:08 pm

That is bad.

Most of the time, I ignore putlog lines in scripts (rather, forget about them).

However, if I remember, I will append/update the putlog line, to replect changes and/or my name.

Post by **slennox** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 6:47 pm

I take a pretty inclusive approach to adding scripts to the tcl archive. The downside being this wastes my time (it's quite a lot quicker to reject a script than to get its details together and add it) and that quite a few bad eggs can get through, including some things I personally think are kind of silly. The scripts that aren't added are mainly small scripts with glaringly obvious errors, or ones with war functions and other nasty things.

In the case of someone simply modifying the putlogs, calling it an update and sticking their name on it, it's likely to get through unless it's a script I'm intimately familiar with so that it's obvious to me what's gone on. I'd need to be contacted after the fact, usually by the original author, to remove it.

Yourname · Post by **Yourname** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 9:22 pm

True.

But why wud anyone like to rip it? That's sad.

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 4:22 am

You can't have used mIRC then.

This is somthing that has gone on for year, and will allways go on.

While, in reality there is nothing whatsoever wrong with it, legaly or physicaly. It's the fact the no credit is ever given.

It's a questions that has been asked thousands of times on the mIRC forums, of which, I can't see any answers.

If you like, it's a way for them to get a name for themselves.

I ahve, in one or two cases, found that people rip a script, make everything look like it is from them, wait for a couple of hundred downloads, and then add bacvkdoors into a future version.

This is somthing that what done on a receint bot-pack that was passed onto me.

So long as we know, they are not getting credit for it in spaces where we can help control, then why worry.

zapped · Post by **zapped** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 12:32 pm

I agree it waste everyones time and space to have 10 of the same script with different names but the same code. On that topic though if you write anything your not going to reinvent the wheel are you? I mean if I code something I'd much rather cute paste 250 lines and change what I need changed and then only actuall code 250 rather than the whole 500. call me lazy

So now about something to do with it as a problem for everyone, only a sugestion but how bout a db (since all the files are saved for dl anyhow) and a small script that would parse the "new"submissions against that db and reject based on content of the code in the file minus the putlog name and what not thats easily changed. Just a thought

spock · Post by **spock** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 4:38 pm

hi, lazy

GodOfSuicide · Post by **GodOfSuicide** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:40 am

i must say i addapted all putlogs at the bottom of the TCL's i use on my bot (because i want the same design when loading, because of some script-loaded - not loaded detections). but : the tcl's still contain the original author (in comments at the top of the file), and they are only used for myself.

i dont rip, i just addapt and change the look, but the original credits stay in the TCL.

die rippers die

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 11:04 am

Thats classed as personal use, and should a coder take offence at your for changing in that situation, it would be "die coder dir".

GodOfSuicide · Post by **GodOfSuicide** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 12:16 pm

GodOfSuicide wrote:i dont rip, i just addapt and change the look, but the original credits stay in the TCL.

addapt = the code, not the look

i have got nearly none scripts as they are available in public, all been addapted to my personal needings (botnet, etc)