Albo1125

Yup, the FAQ definitely seemed to be effective and the overwhelmingly positive response by the community as a whole really made me very happy to be part of it. I'm very glad it's all over

The cease & desist was issued to the OpenIV development team and prohibited the development and distribution of OpenIV by them. The use of OpenIV by others was not covered in the C&D nor did Take Two order OpenIV users to stop using it. Editing local files on your own PC for use in a sandboxed single player environment doesn't break any laws nor goes against anything Take Two/Rockstar have said. Using these mods in a (cloned) online environment is a different matter altogether, however. Couldn't agree more. It's saddening and shocking really, especially considering the fact recording modded GTA has proven to be what brings bread on the table for some.

Highly unlikely, as I explain in my stream I believe this is one of the main reasons OpenIV was C&Dd in the first place. Additionally, (iii) use or importation of other IP (including other Rockstar IP) in the project is one of the guidelines issued by Rockstar on what mods shouldn't do.

What a major victory for every member of the GTA modding community that kept backing the OpenIV team. Very grateful to everybody who signed the petition, left a negative Steam review and covered this in news articles. Most unfortunately, we've also seen people leave, call all single player modding (including scripting) illegal, say you'd get lawyers at your door if you continued to use OpenIV, say they'd switch their gameplay to FiveM to "abide by Take Two's wishes" (Take Two took down FiveM months ago and hasn't given permission to continue its development) and a load of other absurdities. Excuses and claims which are no more than a steaming pile of old baloney! I felt obliged to do an impromptu stream to bust all these ridiculous lies and to thank those that stuck by the single player modding community and OpenIV. You should really consider throwing OpenIV a donation for their thousands of hours of work and to support them in all the stress they've been having over unwarranted legal fears - without the OpenIV developers, you'd be stuck with default vehicles, peds, visuals and textures. Furthermore, major thanks to @t0y for creating and promoting his game-changing petition which accumulated over 80k signatures. Keep modding!

They don't always run away, there's already 7 possible behaviour scenarios on that callout.

This is not an officially released callout and is not yet working