[g-force2k2]

Originally Posted by Sophocle

In the french community, we have collected permissions from authors before translating hacks. But some of them have made hacks on ideas of other coders. Must we control the old versions ? For instance, you can see this link. We have the permission to translate Gary W's hacks but we do not have the permission of g-force2k2. I've read the 2 hacks and I do not find similar code but I dont't want to hurt g-force2k2. It would be better to create a clear rule to define what is allowed and what is prohibited.
An idea is not protected but if we don't want to lose plenty of coders, we should be careful to respect the original ideas.

First off if you compared the two hacks you would clearly see the explicit copyrights of my hack. Secondly I was not even credited for absolutely nothing in the release. Thirdly I fail to see how the two hacks have that much of a difference in coding. You say that they aren't similar? No disrespect but I find that insulting, because I can clearly see the exact similarities. He made a few changes in the code to suite the page navigation and the vbphrases but other then that he used the code that I had created, the time calculating function that I created. Sure the templates are different, but other then that I see very little differences. If you really want to port over Gary W.'s, I'd advise not too. There's a lot of things I would do different from what I had first created in order to optimize it for vb3. Other then that I can say my copyrights were not respected the least bit, and if that is the respect that I will get then I'd rather not hack for vb3, because personally I don't even have a live forum I just hack vb for the purposes to create modifications for others to use.

Regards,
g-force2k2