The end of Rock Patch

[Renegade]

As much as I'd like to help you...RP isn't GPL'd. It wasn't released with a licensed that expressedly allows redestribution. And without any express statement from VK that redistribution is/was allowed (somebody would have to check the archives), the distribution model is more like him giving out usage licenses.

Really, somebody should check older posts to see what else he said about distribution.

EDIT, because FS jumped in between:

More than that, the RP is a derivative work of YR so technically the copyright still belongs to EA.

not right.

Sorry but this is 100% right, RockPatch is a derivated work of an existing copyrighted work (in this case Yuri's Revenge, the same for your Extended Tiberian Sun)

Again, as much as I'd like to help, that is not "100% right". The copyright of code belongs (unless you're in the US and get fucked in the ass) to the person who coded it. So EA holds a copyright on the majority of the exe, pd small parts, and VK a large portion of the patch.

The patch is technically illegal because it is a derivative work (violates the EULA), but the fact that it is a derivative of an EA product does not automatically turn VK's code into EA's.