I suggest you try again to get his permission. Without permission of the author it is not possible to redistribute (modified or not) his/her work. As a community of coders we take copyright seriously, and unfortunatly this is one of the side effects of that.

Will keep it up one more week to give you the chance to get permission.

THX I've send him an email. I will post his answer here postiv or negativ when I recive it.

Ok, and good luck.

How would I restrict this so that only certain usergroups can use it?

Thanks for finally porting this! My users love it!

Might be rather difficult, what with gamingforce.com vanishing.. :nervous:

Seems unlikely you will get an answer, which is a shame - but once again it highlights the problem of porting abandoned hacks. :(

Actually, I think it highlights the anal rules about porting hacks. If an author releases a hack to the public, the public should be able to modify, update, etc. the code without permission as long as credit is given.

The stupid mindset that people are "stealing" other peoples' freely-distributed work is what causes a huge logjam in development of hacks for new vb versions.

Porting a hack needs permission? Stupid.

It's not stupid if the author is active and/or contactable. It is a bit naff if they seem to have just vanished for months and abandoned their code.

Yes it does, as it is protected by copyright ;)

If you don't mind the author potentially returning and sueing you for taking over their intellectual property, then you run that risk, but we don't allow it here...

Chris

Protected by copyright, huh? I highly doubt anyone here has their work copyrighted.

If someone is re-releasing freely-distributed material FREELY, then there's no problem. If they were making a profit off it, that's another issue.