[Logician]

Originally Posted by rishel

With 431 post you have, you should know by know that on VB.org we give credit where its do.

I've got this thread reported by a vb.org member and I want to understand what the problem is. If conflict is not yet solved, I appreciate if someone can take sometime and recap what's going on as I am not familiar with the automative scripts.

In the meantime, here are some points depending on what I understood until now: (and plz forgive if I understood wrongly)

1- If someone "converts" a code of another to release here, he should get permission of the author. Eg. if you want to include phpmyadmin into vbulletin to release here(what a job that would be lol), you have to get phpmyadmin's author's permission.

2- If you code your own script that does something another program is doing, and you coded it from the ground, you don't have to get anybody's permission to do that. Eg. if you code a vb hack from the ground that does what phpmyadmin is exactly doing, you don't need a permission, because you coded it from the ground. If it were otherwise, vbulletin itself would never be coded since there were other bb scripts around that use the same "concept".

3- Exception of Rule 2: If you recode a "small" vb hack to release here, we want it relased in the original hack thread as recodings of small hacks are usually no different than the original hack due to the volume of the code.

Hope these general principals shed a light to the problem you are discussing.

And a kind request for rishel:
If you believe this hack is breaking any vb.org rule, please report it to moderation team, instead of flaming the thread so that we can moderate accordingly. Because if it is not breaking any rules, then your comments might be discouraging hack author unnecessarily and cluttering the thread with wrong assumptions and we wouldn't want that. On the other hand, if it is breaking a rule, our moderation will solve the problems so there won't be any ground for such comments in the thread. Thank you for understanding..