[Andrew]

Originally Posted by tehste

I cant believe the level of ignorance towards intellectual property sometimes. Maybe you haven't considered the ethics of it or you choose to ignore them. Even if the author had vanished for 6 months it is wrong to take their code. Today I had giologist pm me and basicly say if I didn't port my gift addon for ushop he would "get it ported". I wasn't going to say anything but then I saw this thread and a few other requests by people to "port" hacks made by other people.

If this was open source it would be ok. But vb.org isn't open source.

I think Giologist is perfectly legit if he has a hack ported over for his own personal use. However, if he turned around and released it here on vB.org as his own code a problem would arise.