Indeed it does seem that you have also used elements of DS. And you never gave us the credit. That, and the title screen and menu items that mark the mod as "ours" is a bit inappropriate. Modify/remove those please.
new project LOTS better. read above
I'm assuming DSE4X is supposed to be Distant Stars + E4X, though it is indeed odd he never describes what it is.
That said, I'm afraid I must also object to this release. I apologize if I did not make myself clear last time, but I do NOT give you permission to redistribute my Enhanced 4X Mod. What I told you was okay is a "Comparability Patch", or enhancement patch if you want to add something entirely new, but the point is users must download my mod individually from a valid site I authorize (Moddb or Wincustomize). If they can gain access to E4X content without doing this, I will oppose such a mod. Even if you give me credit, taking whatever you like from my mod and releasing it with some changes in one of your "projects" is not acceptable.
Again, I do not have a problem with you making a way to play E4X and Distant Stars/Maelstrom together; in fact people regularly ask me to develop such a way of getting E4X to work with both of those mods. It is great you are willing to spend the time and effort to do that. But you must follow the terms of the modders whose work you use. If you do not, I will seek to have this thread shut down.
So, if you want to publicly release a patch to get E4X to work with other mods, that's great, but what you currently have doesn't fit my terms, so please take that download down. Once you've modified it to require the main E4X download to work (basically, take all the files you changed and put it in a separate download which users can then apply above E4X in their mod order), I will be glad to approve it it.
