"Paid hack section" implies a forum dedicated to the release of paid hacks - Paid hack directory implies a list of sites with paid modifications ;)

Chris

Commercial or not it's still up to the copyright holder (you) to make clear what license your code is released under. Just because something is free doesn't mean there are no rights to it.

The author must protect his own work, commercial or not. It's false to say allowing commercial hacks here would allow someone to do this, in fact it has nothing to do with this thread at all.

Sorry, what I meant was to say that with paid hacks a cp removal could be an extra fee.

going in that direction is like saying this:

vBulletin shouldnt require someone to buy it because most of the work is done by PHP processing and MySQL storage of information.

Yes, Google does make the map and the imagery, but VBGoogleMap's author did the vBulletin backend for it..that kinda stuff isnt easy.

dont take it that far
i can also come up with a huge leap
how about - you need to pay intel because the computer you used to code it in was intel based

How about "You should pay Edison and Tesla because the computer intel created runs on electricity" :) :) :)