This is from the Tonal Readme
Due to the extensive / excessive amount of work put into this project to make the Tonal isle unique, copyright is claimed on the original work.
This addon is not to be altered or edited for any purpose without the express permission of the authors. Nor should it be distributed except in the form provided.
Ask for permission to use any Tonal objects/textures BEFORE using them in another project.
Requests will be considered some time after release.
While I appreciate all the work that the BAS people put into the island, and have no doubt that cj525 would give them credit, it seems moot to me.
1. They have admittedly "gone out of Business"
2. Their e-mail address doesn't work
3. Who's to say that if one
former BAS member gives, or withholds permission that it's enough?
4. This was a free add on made for OFP
5. Do we need friggin lawyers now for free add ons.
6. OMFG, what if some guy picks up an island using BAS objects and
Doesn't Read the Read Me! SOoooooooo What.
If somebody's nose gets out of joint about that then they shouldn't have made a free add on for public use.
edit: I have almost every BAS Add On made and use, or have used them alot. I really liked their work. For OFP editing of free add ons to be an issue at all just seems ludicrous to me. Why would it hurt BAS, even if they still exisisted, for someone to use, and give them credit for them, some BAS objects and/or textures? Is this some kind of "It's mine, and you can only play with it the way I want you to" thing?
If there was money involved, I could see some reason for this. Read the Tonal Read Me. In it Nagual states that lots of the sounds for the Add On were taken from other sources and games, and very loosely (names some) gives them credit. Did he have permission to use them? I don't know. I would think that would be a whole lot more of a copyright issue than cj including some BAS stuff in his island.
BAS wants you to get permission to use their stuff. Somebody show me the Official (legal) BAS contact!
Rant Off ;D