Overview
- The Skyblivion team disclosed Saturday that an anonymous ex-volunteer has threatened legal action after the project decompiled parts of their contributed code following loss of repository access.
- The team says the former volunteer escalated to sending legal threats and demanded the real names and home addresses of several volunteer leads, prompting safety and privacy concerns.
- To protect contributors, Skyblivion removed the disputed code, rebuilt the affected system from scratch, and said it has consulted legal counsel while seeking help from people with IP and GDPR expertise.
- Reports cite the former volunteer as seeking damages of about €30,000, though the team says no confirmed court filing has been made and the exact legal status remains unclear.
- Skyblivion is a long-running, volunteer remake that Bethesda has allowed to continue under an asset-replacement condition, and the dispute could further delay the project while highlighting legal and privacy risks in large fan-driven mods.