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When it comes to making mods you can assign what your permissions are for your mods. This also means you have to read other modders permissions as well if you want to use any of their ''edited/custom'' assets for your own mods. This includes even the unique identifier (UUID) for that asset as it is ''intended to interact with existing user-submitted content.''

So what are permissions? To simply put they are the rules you and other modders put around the assets in your mods. Such as heavily edited, textures, heads, outfits, vfx and such. Like whether you want someone to be able to take your mod, make some edits to it and then upload it as their own mod.

No one owns vanilla assets and they cannot be claimed by anyone. So multiple mods using the same assets can exist such as multiple mods existing that add the same NPC hairs can exist. If the asset is edited that is where permissions generally come in.  

Ask for permission before using assets from another mod or making a patch for a mod. This is common courtesy to ask if you can make a patch for someone else's mod or asking if you can add assets from one mod to another.

* it makes the modder aware so any troubleshooting needed can be easier to do.

* most modders are fine for personal use edits, but this means no uploading their assets to other sites/discord servers and such

Say you find a head mod you like but you want to use it as a base to create your own head:  

* Due to being an edited mesh you have to get permission of the mod author to use the mesh as a base for your own edits. Yes even if the original asset they edited came from the game.  

** If the face itself isn't edited but the ears have been heavily edited then it would in this case be the ears you need to get permission to use.

If you use an edited asset from another modder without permission you risk your mod or at the very least the assets used being requested to be pulled before the mod can go live again by nexusmods.