OpenIV, a multi-purpose editor and archive manager for PC versions of Grand Theft Auto 5 and GTA 4 will no longer be distributed by the developers after an official Cease-and-Desist letter was handed out by Take-Two’s lawyers.
The editor has been around for almost ten years, and was removed today according to a post on the the OpenIV website, and posted on the GTA Forums by GooD-NTS.
According to the letter sent by lawyers representing Rockstar parent company Take-Two on June 5, OpenIV was “allowing third parties to defeat security features of its software and modify that software in violation Take-Two’s rights”.
Because going to court would take “at least a few months, huge amounts of effort,” and according to the post “at best we’ll get absolutely nothing,” the developers decided to agree with Take-Two’s claims and will stop distribution of OpenIV.
In the post, it’s stated only “clean-room” reverse engineering was used for interoperability and there wasn’t any distribution of original data or code, and “absolutely no messing with Online.”
“Yes, we can go to court and yet again prove that modding is fair use and our actions are legal,” reads the post. “Yes, we could. But we decided not to.
“Spending time just to restore status quo is really unproductive, and all the money in the world can’t compensate the loss of time.
“It was a hard decision, but when any modding activity has been declared illegal, we can’t see any possibilities to continue this process,unless top management of Take-Two company makes an official statement about modding, which can be used in court.”
OpenIV was used to create too many GTA 5, GTA 4, Episodes from Liberty City and Max Payne mods to list.
Popular GTA mod OpenIV has been shut down by Rockstar lawyers after 10 years posted first on pipervictor.blogspot.com
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