Somewhat off-topic, but It would be even better if there was a way for other sites (sites not run by / via Jelsoft) to sign a contract or so for access to a database for Licensed User Verication. (LUV, hahaha)

Paired with making good use of vB3's language system, that could be a great solution to the Hacks problem that currently exists due to nations that don't speak much English (if any at all), but have lots of vBulletin sites nonetheless (france, germany, the entire middle-east).

I don't know if I understand your post correctly, so sorry if this answer is a little bit wrong. I think that the german site have to run with the license system just in case that only the Licensed User can access the DL area.
I haven't speak with Jelsoft or vBulletin - Germany yet, but I think there could be a solution.

Kurafire is right.

Without the licensesystem you won't get much agreements, as noone want to write his hacks downloadable for unlicensed users...

why not just release the translated phrases for the hacks as add-ons on this site (once permission has been granted)? seems to me to be a better idea if everything was available centrally, and the translation packs could be attached to the first posts with the actual hack files.

some kind of flag hack could even be worked up to denote what languages the hacks were available for to display in the thread-listings of the hack forums etc and no one need worry about the files ending up in the wrong hands as only licenced members can download from here.

recently i have read about the french community and now the german community requesting to post translated hacks on their respective sites - why not release everything here, then link to the hack threads from vb-fr and vb-de?

*** on another note, and quite off-topic, i notice that “SkyShadow‘s” post count is showing zero for me, even after i read 3 of his posts in this thread. see attached file.

This forum probably does not count up towards postcounts then, it seems. :)


As for the language-packs released on here - that's all fine, and will work somewhat of course, but we don't want french and/or german Hack DISCUSSIONS here, now do we? We want to keep this site English, so as far as I'm concerned, the french and german vB-sites that provide hacks should only (no more!) have hack language packs attached in their posts, and nothing else.

You mean in multiple languages? So like one person would post several copies of their same hack but in different languages? Or do you mean all languages in their one thread? Either way, it would be difficult because not everyone here speaks certain languages, like German :)

Anyways, this sounds interesting, if this gets going then I would probably give permission for them to translate my hacks, but I'd still need to be contacted first so I can give explicit permission after I've read the fine print and all :D

I think this system (language pack for hacks) is difficult to introduce. You probably know that each language has it own structure. I am not sure the coder will think somebody could translate his hack when creating himself the phrases.

Currently, there is no good system to check vbulletin licences. We have asked many times if we could have a control system like the one for vbulletin.org.

Possible solutions :
- post translations here : but the admins want an english forum. No way to french support. We don't want to compel users who don't speak english to go here. A lot of french people have problems to buy vbulletin. Imagine if the had to visit vb.org and register here ;)
- request vbulletin customerid : it's like asking somebody for his credit number card. I can't take this responsibility
- create an official french support forum : the Jelsoft staff is not ready for that
- ask individual permissions : it's what we do now. Some hackers accept. Others deny.
We also develop hacks and try to support the french customers but it's not easy to be unofficial.

At the moment, we are pleased to have collected more than 100 permissions to translate hacks. Most of hackers accept to be translated in french.

Anyways, it should be easier now to translate hacks to different languages with the new phrases and languages system in vB 3 :)