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Originally Posted by hypedave

Yes I was referring to the actual vBulletin license. Okay but here is another question I have.

John Doe has a vbulleting forum, someone approaches him and says "Hey I like your vbulletin forum, can you CO HOST a sub forum on your forum? It pretty much fits your forums and all"

Now if John Doe accepets and decides to create a new forum or sub forum, or any other words Co Host a forum on his site, is that really breaking the vb license? Cause if that is the case, not that im trying to be an a** hole, but I can point several hundred vbulletin ran sites of different genres that are doing that same thing, but with out a hack to automate the full process"

Yep a huge number of installations do exactly what you describe. This is why Wayne has started using language along the lines of "semi-automated" and "automated" code to achieve subforums as probably being illegal. As far as all of us can tell, these terms are not strictly laid out in our licensing agreement; this language will probably appear in a revised agreement to be forced upon us in future upgrades.

Personally I think when a company starts trying to stifle creativty and innovation to boost profit margins its time to move over to another product. We'll have to see what their final determination is first of course........