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Abe1 07-30-2006 11:59 PM

A PM i got from 'albibak'
 
I'm posting this here to hear what other coders thing of this.

I got a PM from ‘albibak’, a ‘Team Member’ from www.vbulletin-france.com. He was requesting permission to translate me hacks to French. I normally allow such types of requests but www.vbulletin-france.com is the unofficial French support website for vb. One click to their site showed me that all there hacks are open to anyone who wants to download them.

This idea of letting anyone download hacks without verifying they have a vb license doesn’t sound too good. Anyone can then translate the hack back to English and enjoy it on their non-licensed site. Most hacks don’t have that many phrases and can take a minute or two to fully translate the whole hack.

I would like to know why coders here would give such permissions.

oninuva 07-31-2006 12:10 AM

Well First of All They do not need any translation at all...

VbHackers.com has most of the good "English" hacks already. Well all the good ones atleast. So Yeah. See What I mean?

Billspaintball 07-31-2006 12:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abe1
Most hacks don?t have that many phrases and can take a minute or two to fully translate the whole hack.

If they are bi-lingual that is. If they cant read French + the language they are translating to it would take quite a bit longer than that.
Quote:

I would like to know why codes here would give such permissions.
Why not?
Why should I restrict my Hacks to English?
If there is an "Official" vB site for that language then they would get preference, but if there isant than an unofficial one is welcome to translate mine.

Code Monkey 07-31-2006 12:43 AM

It doesn't matter. All the hacks are on pirate sites anyways. Thinking they are safe here is fools gold.

Abe1 07-31-2006 01:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Billspaintball
Why not?
Why should I restrict my Hacks to English?
If there is an "Official" vB site for that language then they would get preference, but if there isant than an unofficial one is welcome to translate mine.

That is not the point of my post. The post is that you are releasing your hack to the public. If you would do it in French, why not here in English? Why have the validating process here? We are protecting our hacks here. Sending it there, is making them un-protected.

Quote:

Originally Posted by JumpD
It doesn't matter. All the hacks are on pirate sites anyways. Thinking they are safe here is fools gold.

So why not make this place open to the public already?

You don't have to make it easy for them.

jlaine 07-31-2006 01:18 AM

At least the proposed translator is attempting to do the right thing and ask permission, although JumpD does have a valid point - the pirates find their way in anyway.

Code Monkey 07-31-2006 01:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abe1

So why not make this place open to the public already?

You don't have to make it easy for them.

It is easy for them. Members of this site who are licensed give it to them and/or are them. It's a nasty world out there and they know jelsoft doesn't care and the members here don't have the money or resources to care. So until Richie Rich gets into coding vb hacks, that's the way it will be.

Allan 07-31-2006 05:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abe
I'm posting this here to hear what other coders thing of this.

I got a PM from ‘albibak’, a ‘Team Member’ from www.vbulletin-france.com. He was requesting permission to translate me hacks to French. I normally allow such types of requests but www.vbulletin-france.com is the unofficial French support website for vb. One click to their site showed me that all there hacks are open to anyone who wants to download them.

This idea of letting anyone download hacks without verifying they have a vb license doesn’t sound too good. Anyone can then translate the hack back to English and enjoy it on their non-licensed site. Most hacks don’t have that many phrases and can take a minute or two to fully translate the whole hack.

I would like to know why coders here would give such permissions.

Why not ?

I would be charmed to divide my hack and styles on English sites, why not the reverse, that engage only me, not Jelsoft.

This reaction kills the community I find, vBulletin must last by the international sites, that be or not official, that helps the world community multi-language.


[high]* Allan angry ..[/high]

Milad 07-31-2006 05:44 AM

There is no problem, you have to thank hem because he asks you before such doing.
Second you can ask him to translate, then you add the language file with you hack here plus his translation credits.

Ziki 07-31-2006 06:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JumpD
It doesn't matter. All the hacks are on pirate sites anyways. Thinking they are safe here is fools gold.

Agreed.It's just like you have a friend and he is running a cracked vb (I had one and he got reported :p) and he request a hack from you he saw here :confused:


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