A former volunteer is threatening legal action against Skyblivion, the long-running fan remake of Oblivion built in Skyrim's engine, over code they contributed to the project.
The unofficial project, which remakes 2006's The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, is being made by volunteers from the TES Renewal Project, the modding group that also works on Morrowind remake Skywind.
Bethesda has allowed the project to continue on condition that it replaces all of the original game's assets, and the team continued working on it after Bethesda released its own Oblivion Remastered in April 2025.
In a statement posted to Twitter/X on 30th October, the Skyblivion team said that after the volunteer left, the two sides disagreed over the "continued use and maintenance" of their work.
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The main issue was the team's decompilation of parts of that code, which it said was needed "to maintain functionality and fix issues" after its access to the original source code repository was revoked.
According to the team, the volunteer then "escalated to sending legal threats", including demands for the real names and home addresses of its volunteer team leads. The team said this was "something we couldn't accept and think is disproportionate".
The team said it has consulted legal counsel and is "completely confident in our right to maintain the code they submitted". Even so, it said it removed the code "to protect our volunteers from undue stress and ensure a clean break", rebuilding that system from scratch.
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