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Are we allowed to modify UnityEngine.dll and sharing it?
Recently I've created mods for "Besiege" (editing Assembly-UnityScript.dll with JustDecompile with the creators' consent), but I've found the need to edit UnityEngine.dll.
This seems more like Unity's property, so I was wondering if we were allowed to change that. First I asked through https://unity3d.com/contact/get-in-touch, then they told me to ask support@unity3d.com, who told me to ask here.
What kind of modifications to UnityEngine.dll do you want to make, exactly?
Support is full of it. This is a community site where volunteers with no official connection to Unity write answers to questions about the editor. There's nobody here that's got the knowledge or the authority to answer questions about what you're allowed to do with Unity's dlls.
From general experience, though, I assume that Unity having a copyright on their code would mean that redistributing it, even in edited form, is really, really illegal and could land you in jail. So, yeah. Probably don't do that unless you get a "yes" from an official.
Writing a script that injects changes into the dll might be permitted. It might also go against the terms of use - I don't know. I haven't seen anyone get stepped on by admins for mentioning what they found when going through the dlls with ILSpy, but that doesn't really mean anything.
Contact support again, and make sure to explain that it's UNITY's dll's you want to edit, not Besiege's. In fact, don't mention Besiege at all. In the mean time, see if you can glance anything from here.
That's what I thought too, but they wanted a post to refer to, so maybe that's why? I checked the legal site last week, but that seems to be only for creators.
I'll send them another e-mail :3
So the community here are now being given the authority to answer legal issues concerning Unity's core IP? That's nuts! I can only imagine they have completely misunderstood your question.
FWIW, the licence agreement states "you agree not to disassemble, decompile or reverse engineer the Software, in whole or in part, or permit or authorize a third party to do so, except to the extent such activities are expressly permitted by law notwithstanding this prohibition." https://unity3d.com/legal/eula
It would be hard to see how modifying UnityEngine.dll wouldn't put you in breach of this.
I guess I'll stick to the non-unity stuff then, though "Software" seems to refer to the Unity-editor ("Unity Pro and Unity Personal"), not software created with said "Software".
Though it's kinda unclear, which is why I decided to ask them before doing any of such.
This might come under the requirement of the Source-Code license but I think this is reserved for big industry players.
