I'm not part of either team — just someone who cares about open-source modding and went looking into something. I want to be careful and fair, so to be clear up front: this is about one specific component , not a claim that the whole mod is copied. The short version cRPG is open-source under the GPLv3 . Anyone can use its code — the only condition is that if you ship it, your project stays open-source and you credit the original. Warlords is closed-source, and it ships one component copied from cRPG : the friendly-fire reporting system (the thing that tracks team-hits, lets victims report, and kicks repeat offenders). The internal structure is cRPG's, just with the visible chat messages reworded. Most of Warlords is its own work — this is about that one system, nothing more. I'd rather undersell it than overstate it. And if I've gotten something wrong here, Warlords devs — I'd genuinely want to hear it; this isn't meant as an ambush. Why I'm confident T...