Originally Posted by AlexanderT

The most interesting part about this dicussion is whether some vB hacks fall under GPL or not. I just downloaded vbXirc and had a quick look at the sources. Look at this:

Not only does Zachery fail to mention the original copyright of PIRC, but he is in fact violating the original copyright. GPL clearly contains "constraints against constraints." Section two of the GPL allows for modifications and distribution of a GPL-licensed work if the licensee causes any work to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of the GPL. More so, if the licensee includes any GPL code in another program, the entire program becomes subject to the terms of the GPL. Violation of these restrictions may subject the offender to civil and criminal penalties for copyright infringement.

I am sure Zachery is not the only "criminal" here infringing copyrights. Moderators of this community should keep a closer eye on these important issues.

Originally Posted by AlexanderT

Zachery, you are using PIRC code (have a look at /forums/chat in the zip file you supply) and your product derives from it. Smart move to remove it though, to avoid legal trouble.

Originally Posted by KW802

It's a tad ironic that at an idea meant to help the vB community is actually causing the community to split itself. What's worse is that even though it's obvious what affect this idea is having that the progenitors of it are totally ignoring those affects and, if anything, seem to be actually encouraging it. :ermm:

Originally Posted by KW802

It's a tad ironic that at an idea meant to help the vB community is actually causing the community to split itself. What's worse is that even though it's obvious what affect this idea is having that the progenitors of it are totally ignoring those affects and, if anything, seem to be actually encouraging it. :ermm:

Originally Posted by Dean C

The issue is not regarding the law, it's the way the conduct of the members of vbhacks-germany.de constructed their request.

Originally Posted by Dean C

That's not really the issue at hand here IMO. The issue is not regarding the law, it's the way the conduct of the members of vbhacks-germany.de constructed their request. I'm sure if redlabour had kindly asked Zachery to take his modification and translate it, instead of insisting that he could take it, regardless of what Zachery thinks, then Zachery would have kindly asissted. The same applies to me, I just don't like the way people were insisting they could take the work :)

Originally Posted by Akex

Not true. Take a look at post #1 (question from redlabour) and post #2 answer of Zachery.

Originally Posted by JohnBee

Seriously... you'd think people were trying to steal the food from your mouth
when they are simply extending courtesy by expanding "free" work.

Some even used the terms piracy... thats pretty lame considering this kind
of resistance only ends up producing illegal distribution of hacks.

I don't see the problem with translating hacks to another language especially
if the intent is to help others benefit from them which retains the whole concept
of creating and distributing the code to begin with.

Some people need to lighten up and look beyond the keyboard once in awhile.
While having no problems using GPL code to embed in your scripts but when
someone asks to do something positive as a language translation people act
as though they are trying to steal there work.

Its clear throughout the thread that some could benefit from this.