[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by Brad

The first post of the thread had been edited, did you see it when it was first posted? When the thread began he was asking for beta testers from the community, we allowed it.

I agree it took us to long to take action after the thread outlived it usefulness, but it has been taken care of now for the reasons stated in my last post.

We even took more action then Brad is showing here, and i can know, cause i handled the vBSeo case when it was first posted.

Within a day (probably even hours) after the first post about VBSeo was made, the author already received a PM asking if he was planning to release a version here at vb.org. In the months that followed the same question have been asked him a few times, and each time he could convince us that a (free) Lite version will be released here. That is the only reason the post about VBSeo lasted longer then a day.

AFAIK it is still in his intention to release that free version, although we still have to iron out some problems with our rules (part of the code is encrypted).

Bottom line, it is not handled any different then other threads posted about (semi) commercial hacks.