[Reeve of shinra]

"There definitely needs to be permission asking before using the idea of someone elses hack or similar code. Eg. From 3.0 to 3.5 hacks"

I disagree -- alot of vb2 hacks have been rewritten by other people to accomplish the same functionality in vb3. Alot of hack are directly inspired by hacks and/or default features of other forum software... where do we draw the line of "idea"?

As for updating others hacks to work with a new release,... well, most people code a hack to accomplish something that they need for thier own site and not every author sticks around or can even be reached to update thier hacks.

People are very possessive about thier hacks - its thier vb e-peen. I can understand that they dont want thier code used in hacks released outside of vb.org or thier code in releases for other forum software, etc.

At the same time, alot of hacks use functionality from the vbulletin software - if not in whole then deffinitely in part. In the same spirit we should be allowing people to extend upon and update hacks -- just make sure that everyone gets the credit they are due.