Rockstar relaxes GTA single-player mod stance

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Rockstar has seemingly relaxed its stance on single-player Grand Theft Auto mods, after the uproar caused by last week's cease and desist letter sent to popular mod OpenIV.
The legal warning to OpenIV was sent by lawyers from Rockstar's parent company Take-Two. In the past, multiplayer mods have often been targeted with takedown notices to combat cheating and remove any perceived threat to its lucrative GTA Online. Mods for GTA's single-player had been largely left alone.
The targeting of OpenIV appeared to signal a shift in stance from Take-Two - it had moved the goal posts of what was allowed. Unsurprisingly, the GTA mod community was upset.
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