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Originally Posted by Zachery

If anything is truely released under an open source license, porting it and charging for support is a viable option.

I hate to be one to disagree with you Zach but that is about as good for the vb.org comunity as pulling the plug on its server. Anyway I have been told by the "new" author he was given full copyright by Velocd for that open source hack as all Velocd's hacks are open source going by his profile, I am still sure if Velocd did hand over the copyright he wouldnt have wanted it to be used in this way "of totally being removed from the community and available at a pay site" because that would be completely against the way vb.org has run in the past. Its one thing to take your own work away its another to take away a modification that was given to the community for your own advantages. Charging for premium support is fine, the hack should remain at its home which is here with the usuall no guarantees of support as its all done on a community basis which has allways worked well.

I would really like to see Velocd pop in and confirm he didnt mind the mod being used in the way it now has been.

I would say vb.org really needs to look at its policies regarding this becasue now its official that if a hack is handed over which many probably have been without any exceptions so many can now be taken away in the same manner. In which case vb.org will be lucky if its still viable after v4.