[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by Keyser S?ze

not if this forum/site states in the rules anything posted here becomes the property of jelsoft

I guarantee that if that was implemented quite a few authors would pull their already released hacks off this site and I know me personally I wouldn't even consider releasing any of the code that I make for my sites which I have already started to release little pieces of it over the last few days.

Originally Posted by nexialys

hum, guys, copyleft, you know?!... everything coded with vB code in it can't have a different copyright than vBulletin until you state it in a seperate license... so until further change from all the releases here, your code follow the copyright applied to vBulletin

When you write code for vbulletin you have to adhere to the license agreement. Your new additional code does not implicitly fall under the vBulletin Copyright and is free to be copyrighted by the author with ease. That is the nature of online development. As the code is the property of its creator and as such he has the rights to it. Now the functions the code may utilize such as core vb functions are the property of Jelsoft but not the additional code / concept created by modification authors. Check any online community as that has been the general consensus given for most major modification communities. As for having to have a separate license file to be able to copyright it this is not true. You can copyright it using quite a few different methods as long as it is stated somewhere what the copyright terms are. As its the user who is working with the copyrighted material's responsibility to make sure they aren't breaking your license agreement or the copyright that you implemented. It would then after that be my job or somebody who I give the power to act on my behalf to enforce the copyright / license and handling people who are breaking the terms set forth (Such as DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)).