rewrite a.8.5 to not defer to legal-mods as much #206
Description
A.8.5) Rules relating to what Fabric mods are legal and the conditions of their use are
documented on the legal-mods GitHub repository. Some mods have special conditions of use,
such as for use in Set Seed categories only, as described in the README.md.
A.8.5.note) legal-builds.csv documents every currently legal jar file. Use of a Fabric
mod jar not listed in that file at the time of the run is illegal and will cause your run to be
rejected. The files stored in the GitHub are not intended users to download directly and
instead we recommend you use other tools provided to do so, linked in the README.
Previously legal builds of mods are often made illegal upon updates for closer vanilla
parity or bug fixes, do not assume that just because the mods you have installed were
legal at the time they are still legal now. A grace period of a month to update mods is
typically given for parity updates, this is often shorter for bug fixes.
there is a bit of inconsistency in the idea that users are not supposed to go to legal-mods, and this rule is written in a way that perpetuates that. to remedy this I suggest we narrow the scope of this rule to only reference legal-builds.csv, and only for what builds are legal and what ranges those builds are legal for and change policy to store rules pertaining to the use of mods in a.8. then the rule becomes
A.8.5) legal-builds.csv in the legal-mods GitHub repository defines what builds of what Fabric mods are legal and for what ranges of Minecraft versions.
A.8.5.note) Use of a Fabric mod jar not listed in that file at the time of the run is illegal and will cause your run to be rejected. The jar files stored in legal-mods on GitHub are not intended users to download directly and instead we recommend you use other tools from the community to do so, such as the MCSR Launcher, ModCheck, and mods.minecraftspeedrunning.com.
Previously legal builds of mods are often made illegal upon updates for closer vanilla parity or bug fixes, do not assume that just because the mods you have installed were legal at the time they are still legal now. A grace period of a month to update mods is typically given for parity updates, this is often shorter for bug fixes. When previously legal builds are made illegal it will be announced in Javacord and the main board's news feed.