Releasing your hacks outside of vb.org

[Akex]

Me too

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Akex

Me too

I Distrbute my hacks here and at GeekyDesigns.com

Now if anyone wants to translate them I would be more than happy to provide them with the zip or in the install thread

But thats me.

[H2k]

Originally Posted by Zachery

I Distrbute my hacks here and at GeekyDesigns.com

Now if anyone wants to translate them I would be more than happy to provide them with the zip or in the install thread

But thats me.

I make A forums for vb support in my board also for ipb and phpbb as well .. well my board is very active and have big number of user.. but the problem is when i open this 3 forums member start asking how to get vb and where to get.. and other come post link for download and so on .. so i have deleted This forums .. well i dont need to have any problems ..

[Lumina]

Releasing your hacks outside of vb.org is good is you want to provide international support for your hacks : German, French, Italian, Greek, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, ...

Good people are willing to translate them if your hacks deserve it.

Now about making vb.org an international help site, that would be difficult. People often prefer to have contacts in there native language. vb.org is not designed to support multi-language hacks and downloads:
- is there a forum for each language?
- is there a search feature for hacks language-based?

That's why we need those foreign websites.

And vbulletin-fr.org is the most trustworthy French website for vBulletin software. The vbulletin-fr.org team tries its best:
- to respect the authors wishes and credits
- to prevent piracy (using custom licence validator)
- to cooperate with Jelsoft philosophy for a solution about an official system

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by Dave#

Then why require licence information at all?

Basically to prevent unlicensed people access to the hacks. You're right, it's a "marketing" or a commercial decision. What's wrong with that? Jelsoft IS a company - otherwise, why not release vB for free.

[trafix]

at the risk of being shot down here ...

I would perfer to release ALL my hacks here but due to vb.org policies i have to host my commercial hacks on my own site, there is only 2 of them but.. i still dont know if the hack buyers have a valid vB licence. i spose i could ask, but how am i to know that they are telling me the truth.

I wiuld prefer to loose a sale of a hack if i knew that they didnt have a licence

[H2k]

Originally Posted by trafix

at the risk of being shot down here ...

I would perfer to release ALL my hacks here but due to vb.org policies i have to host my commercial hacks on my own site, there is only 2 of them but.. i still dont know if the hack buyers have a valid vB licence. i spose i could ask, but how am i to know that they are telling me the truth.

I wiuld prefer to loose a sale of a hack if i knew that they didnt have a licence

Well i think u can do the same idea for vb.org and Geekdesign or vba they should enter their customer IDs or password i think .. :laugh:

[Dave#]

Basically to prevent unlicensed people access to the hacks. You're right, it's a "marketing" or a commercial decision. What's wrong with that?

I wouldn't be happy that jelsoft are making money off my code. Releasing code to the community doesn't sit well with access to said code being controlled by the jelsoft licenceing model.

What's wrong with that? Jelsoft IS a company - otherwise, why not release vB for free.

Sun is a company, MYSQL-AB is a company, Redhat is a company . . . .

[Deaths]

Hmmm, you guys just gave me an idea for my new vBMA hack! vB license validation !

Thanks guys

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Dave#

I wouldn't be happy that jelsoft are making money off my code. Releasing code to the community doesn't sit well with access to said code being controlled by the jelsoft licenceing model.



Sun is a company, MYSQL-AB is a company, Redhat is a company . . . .

No one is forcing you to release your hacks here dave

many others try, and have done so, only later to get discouraged with the ammount of pirates they help...