[DarkHoodness]

E: Revised question.

I'd like to do this project in a way that I find fun, 'cause I'm awkward. Over the past month I've occasionally been experimenting with stuff while waiting for things to update - What I want to do is possible in Minecraft with mods. Normal MC is too restrictive, and so is doing the map in Tekkit or FTB 'cause they don't have the mods I want to use.

Tekkit Launcher supports custom mod packs now, so I'm putting together a mod pack to distribute with the map. It'll be based on MC 1.5 and will include compatible mods.

Problem with that is I've been looking through various MC forums and there's a huge drama and controversy surrounding permissions to distribute mods in bundled mod packs - Which I can't imagine why since Minecraft belongs to Mojang and surely nobody except them has any rights to what is made for it?

Surely if full author credits are clearly given, it shouldn't be a problem?

I'd like to ask mod authors for permission to distribute the mod pack with my map, but I'm paranoid that they'll say "no" 'cause of the aforementioned drama - And also some are hard to get in touch with personally.

There are several custom mod packs being distributed already though, so should I just chance it and distribute the mod pack anyway when the map is done, provided I give full, clear credits? Or would that be too disrespectful? Is this even an issue? What do people think?