Regarding the vBHosting Hack

[FASherman]

Originally Posted by ap0c

This is where your arguement fails and you would lose in court. By allowing other sites to use your forums, ie," link back to your site: " to create subforums and control them as they see fit, that is a violation of the LA.
No one, according to this section, has the right to sublicence or assign their copy of vbulletin to other sites without Jelsoft's approval.

It is not a sublicense. It doesn't allow the user who creates the forum to establish any policy.

Whatever my policies are regarding user registration, avatar usage, group memberships, attachments, PMs, calendars, etc are inherited by the newly created forum. Linking has no bearing. VB allows one to create forums that are really links, hence they already stipulate to the use of cross-linking sites within the software. It is immaterial whether that occurs in a header - which many forums do through banner ads, or as the forum.

Remember, they can't create a forum and control it as they see fit. They can merely create subforums and assign styles. Plain and simple. That very limited functionality will not stand up in court as a sublicensing.