[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Its pretty obvious that a new editor would break things and would introduce some new issues. 4.1.5 will hopefully resolve those. Mind that there were a lot of editor related issues that are now resolved. Who cares what version name they give it.

I do think that its time for vBS to start caring about mods. There are too many mods abandoned because coders no longer have a license and therefore no permissions on vb.org and no current vb installation to create updates for their mods. This hurts vb.org and therefore decreases the value of vbulletin itself.

Just a point of calcification- if someone ever had an owned vbulletin license they continue to have access to vbulletin.org. But expired licenses are a legitimate issue. For example though I am happy to make 4.x versions of my mods, I personally don't and never intend to use VB 4.x on a live forum. As a result I don't have access to the latest 4.x version.

Obviously vBulletin can't offer a free license to every "coder." Some people release 1 small mod and are considered coders. Debating who is worthy or not would be more trouble than it's worth.

But I do wish they offered a free version licensed only to develop on (must be password protected and not open to the public) that coders could download. We could register as a coder and get a development license number so it could still be tracked if it was ever found on a crack site or something.

I think that would help a lot of people without causing any lost sales. If a development version was ever found on a live site it would be treated like any other pirated version is now.

There could be a message in the footer saying "For development and testing only. Please report piracy here." with a link.