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Boy, this thread sure went off since I last saw it.

I think that John is free to sell his work if he'd like, and it has been done before on vb.org so it's not like it's something new (for example, Overgrow's original Karma hack). In fact, there are people here who sell their "vB Modification Ability" to others, essentially becoming freelance vBulletin hackers.

The license agreement, I believe, covers the modification and redistribution of the actual vBulletin code itself. Since I hack like this is really a complete add-on using the existing codebase, it should be perfectly legal to re-sell.

That being said, I don't like the idea of selling hacks, and I don't see what the big deal is. I've had a working arcade on my forum for two or three days now. The only thing I am missing is more games (like the ones John has) that work with the system. I could release MY arcade hack, but without more games, it is basically just a different version of John's Tetris hack. Plus, since I started over from scratch, the database structure in mine is completely different from the Tetris hack, and the two are no longer compatible.

Anyway, I guess my point is/was, it's not worth fighting over.