[Zachery]

Its up to each and every addon author to do what they want with their addons, which includes (if they want) show a copyright on every page. Hell I'm pretty outspoken about this sort of thing: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...81#post2026781

However, DBTech makes it clear up front about EXACTLY how the addon will display the copyright.

If you want to do the same thing, go for it, I don't think anyone is going to stop you.

There are no rules, or laws, or anything else about this. If the addon author DEMANDS that when you use their software, you must display their copyright, that is their choice. Your choice as an end user, is to use it, or not.

Your choice as a rival addon coder is to do the same, or do your own thing.

Originally Posted by Christos Teriakis

Worst than all (but superior marketing trick), they're trying to appear as they did it for the users' comfort. It's like when I read that vB released a version of vB3.8 compatible with PHP 5.x, to support the webmasters, while they did it (mainly) to have vB.org compatible with PHP 5.x.

This is completely untrue. vBulletin.org currently runs a custom version of vBulletin 3.6 with lots of modifications (file/plugins). Paul M, could have fixed any issues on his own on vBulletin.org without breaking a sweat if that was an actual issue.

vBulletin 3.5+ should run on php 5.2 just fine.
vBulletin 3.8.5+ runs on PHP 5.3 just fine
vBulletin 3.8.8 runs on php 5.4.

Now I can tell you for a fact we're not currently running php 5.4, even if we were, paul could apply patches, or make changes to the system as required.

3.8.8 was released for customers who needed php 5.4 support and want to remain on 3.x. Nothing more, nothing less. I actually pushed really hard to get a 3.8.8 released, and vBulletin.org was never a thought in my mind.