When I posted my earlier comment those were my views of what someone editing one of my maps would be and because I couldn't find a reason other mapmakers would think differently I was assuming everyone would share those views. But let's say that my assumptions are incorrect and there are people who have a different view.
What if you try to contact the maker of a map and you can't? Think if he/she had stopped playing ac, had no clan website to pm them and so on. Or in the case that it was a really nooby map and the maker's name wasn't in the mapmessage. I supppose that would mean you shouldn't make an edit? It would be so much easier for it to be ok to make edits as long as you gave them credit.
Surely there is something that comes with the game that says what you can and can't do with maps? If not, then maybe that should be included in the next release, whenever that may be. It would definitely clear up the confusion that there is.
What if you try to contact the maker of a map and you can't? Think if he/she had stopped playing ac, had no clan website to pm them and so on. Or in the case that it was a really nooby map and the maker's name wasn't in the mapmessage. I supppose that would mean you shouldn't make an edit? It would be so much easier for it to be ok to make edits as long as you gave them credit.
Surely there is something that comes with the game that says what you can and can't do with maps? If not, then maybe that should be included in the next release, whenever that may be. It would definitely clear up the confusion that there is.