The end of Rock Patch

[Renegade]

Actually, I'm not quite sure it is a "derivative work" - that depends on how it is distributed (been some time since I installed RP); if it's really just a patcher, then he's only distributing code he himself wrote (and some of pd's). He's got the right to do that. He's violating the EULA by reverse engineering the game, and the installing users are violating the EULA by modifying the engine - but his code in itself is not a derivative work of EA's copyrighted material. The entire exe, patched, is one. His code alone is just additional code, that is not executable without EA's code. That makes the code he owns worthless without EA's, but it doesn't change the fact that it's his worthless code, under his control.

And while it may be possible that VK's ownership gets taken away from him in some jurisdictions after a court decision, that decision doesn't exist so far. So he's still owner of his code.