Question about the licenese agreement. Would some one be allowed to create a distro version of their own like Linux but kept the copyright agreements and everything?

I don't know about the avatars/rank images they're probably copyrighted (well some of them) but I don't know to whom. I don't know about the license agreement either. One of the staff can answer that :rolleyes:

Anything released on this board, vb.com, or vBt requires a vaild license to download.

But the author dose retain the copyright of his work and can release it to anyone he wants.

so for example i have a lifetime license and i can modify vbulletin in anyway I want and make it into a different way than it was orginally was made. And decide to distrib it for for? I can do that? And if I do do i have to keep the vbulletin copyright or can i remove it? i wanna know when i buy vb and decide to do it

If you're basing your software on vbulletin you would have to leave the vbulletin copyrights where they are. I also don't think you'd be able to redistribute their software that's been edited and renamed. Unless you got specific permission like if you were porting it for other operating systems, then you'd probably have to join the vbulletin team in order to be allowed to do it. However whether they're interested in doing that I don't know.

You can't actually do that anyway, you're not meant to edit copyrights etc unless given permission.

That bit down the bottom.

ill call jelsoft to find out

Does the license price include access to the source code?

Yes - vBulletin is a 'visible source' product, which means that you have access to the PHP source code of the product. You are free to modify the product in any way, provided you retain the vBulletin/Jelsoft copyright notices. For information about vBulletin code "hacking", please visit our unofficial sister site, vbulletin.org. Please note that we are unable to support any installations of vBulletin that have had the source code modified. For more information about the licensing implications of code modification, please review our license agreement.

thats what i got from their faq and they say that yall are an unofficial site.

so i can modify it but gotta keep the copyright stuff unless i pay an extra $120

You are allowed to modify it, but not to distribute any files, modified or not!

vBulletin.com, vBulletin.org, and vBulletintemplates.com are all offical sites.