Originally Posted by nexialys

hum.. .looks like everyone here is melting the request from Borg...

he wanted to know if he had the right to release a hack that was a modification of an existing hack released here...

simple: if it's a addon to a specific tool, just contact the author and usually you get agreement within the day to release it as a addon.

if it's a template edit, just release it in the template Modifications forum and provide links to the original hacks required.

no legal threat anywhere... this is related to vB content, and not a single coder here have the right to add other license or copyright than the one Jelsoft provided, as all modifications to the code from Jelsoft have to be made accordingly to the source code license itself... Jelsoft License, that's all...

Originally Posted by Erwin

By the way, don't take my word for it, read these links:

http://www.patents.com/copyrigh.htm
http://www.piercelaw.edu/tfield/copysof.htm

I'll leave this discussion since I have real legal work to do now. :)

Originally Posted by tamarian

I can't see the difference yet. Are you saying that people who publish source code and distribute it to tens of thousands here on vbulletin.org without any copyright notice are not distributing it? By the mere fact of uploading your code to vbulletin.org, you are distrubuting it.

If AT&T with their millions of dollars lost such an argument, I'd rather not risk it, as I don't have their clout. I'd ather spend the few seconds required to paste that notice.