vBPortal is free.
Support for vBPortal is not free - you have to pay for it. That's fair enough.
Most addons for vBPortal are free. Some are commercial, not GPL, and hence not free.
As far as I can see, there is no illegality involved there. You can still access the phpportals.com forums, just not the support forums.
Anyway, it's only $20 or so to get support. Small price for all the work that the developers have put into it.
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