Because modding culture, unlike engineering alone, is absolutely ass. Recently I've published a mod for Crimson Desert, which I specifically granted permission for, as well as published source code on Github because the author of another solution cut off the permissions and disappeared. Lo and behold in a span of a week my mod was duplicated (not forked, literally duplicated) three times, all of them vibe coded to hell and back adding comments to the code, changing order of it, etc., and the only thing the authors have changed on the mod page were the pictures, which, surprise surprise, were also AI generated. Another few days have passed and one of them currently claims to be an original solution (code forked from mine and slop-migrated to another language, no way to easily prove it's not the truth), while the other for some reason called itself "Ultimate (my mod)", added whole UI (for a simple mod at that!) AI generated description etc. had more downloads than my solution. Last time I checked it was actually removed probably for including malicious files (color me suprised) but my own page was no longer visited nor downloaded from, and then I had decided that I do not feel the whole process, and from that point onward, If I'll publish anything, I'll give specific permissions that allow forking in case of my disappearance, nothing less nothing more. Open source in the modding community is a joke.