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Copies of this app, and how to tell the real one

We keep finding this app under other names: renamed, closed, sometimes for money. Some of them run our code with our name taken off. You cannot check what else they do, and you do not need them, because the original costs nothing.

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What is going around

Launchers that look like this one or do what it does, under a name of their own, with no source code and no word about where they came from. Some sell a subscription, a premium tier or keys. Some make you sign in before they show a single mod. A few are this app with its name changed and its authors removed.

The original is free, open and needs no account. So each of these takes something from you that the original does not: money, a password, or the chance to read what you are running.

Four signs

No source code

The original is GPL-3.0. Anyone may build on that code and even charge for a copy, but whoever hands you one has to give you its source too, under the same licence. No source means nobody can read what the program does, and its maker is breaking the licence it was built under.

No word about where it came from

The licence also keeps the original authors' notices in every copy. A launcher that calls itself new and names nothing it is built on hides the first thing you would want to know.

It wants money

Dota 2 Mod Manager has never charged for anything. It has no subscription, no premium tier, no keys and no locked mods. A launcher asking you to pay for the same job is charging you for something free.

It wants a login or your data

Installing a mod means putting a file into your game folder. That takes no Steam login, no password, no phone number and no card. The one sign-in the original has is optional, happens on discord.com, and only puts your name on a setup you share.

Where the real one lives

The D2PFX catalog, where the mods come from, lists the app in its own Tools section and links here. Anything else that looks like this app did not come from us.

Forks that say so

You may build on this code, and we are glad when people do. A fair fork names what it is built on, publishes its own source and keeps the licence. If you like one of those better, use it. The four signs are about the copies that hide where they came from.

If you already paid or signed in

  • Change the password you typed into it, and the same password anywhere else you use it. If it was your Steam password, change it in Steam and sign out of every other device from the Steam Guard page.
  • If you paid, ask your bank or the payment service how to dispute the charge, and keep the receipt.
  • Remove the copy, then get the original from this site. It recognises the mods already in your game folder and takes them over. How that works.
  • Tell us where you found it, on Discord or at [email protected], so we can warn the next person.

Questions

Is there a paid or Pro version of Dota 2 Mod Manager?
No. There is one version, it is free, and every feature is in it. A Pro, Premium or VIP Dota 2 Mod Manager is not ours.
A launcher does the same thing under another name. Is it safe?
Ask it for its source code and for what it is built on. If it shows you neither, you cannot know what else it does on your computer, and the original does the same job for free.
Can someone sell this app?
The licence allows charging for a copy, as long as the buyer gets the full source under GPL-3.0 and the original notices stay in. You never have to buy it: the same program is free here.

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