[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by EnIgMa1234

IMO if the TOS were rewritten, you will see a lot less hacks being posted which is a lot worst on the entire community.

This is one of the reasons why we decided not to put such a rule in our TOS. One of the other reasons is that you can never override law in your TOS, general law always takes precedence.

Another reason is that a coder already has the choice to write down the conditions (and that could also be that they wave their rights) on their modifications if they choose so.

About "Open Source" type of modifications. In the most simple form this is already possible, the author only needs to write that he allows others to make changes to his work, only the distribution would be a bit difficult (new version would need to be posted in a reply and original author coutld choose to update the first post with the new version). I have already for some time an item on my ToDo/Wishlist to make it possible to have a real environment for collaborative community projects, but that will be something that might take a very long time as it is not so easy to setup with vBulletin (SVN type of environment with test boards for each project with also support for things stored in the database - templates/plugins).