Jelsoft has the right at any time to alter the license agreement in a retroactive fashion at which would render your theory wrong.
No, they don't. Whoever informed you of that is incorrect.
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Additionally, and add-on or modification to the source code of vBulletin is subject to the same license agreement under International Copyright Law and therefore would be considered a violation of the LA.
Again, you aren't taking the full situation into consideration. You can't ignore past history. Taking a few hours to Google copyright law doesn't make you an expert. That fact that this site and others, such as vbulletin.nl and eVB, exist and distribute hacks would be considered implicit permission to the community at large. Selective enforcement is, in itself, a valid defense.
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Jelsoft has every right, and I would assume every intention, or protecting itself.
No one disputes this. The question is whether their interests and mine coincide. If they do not, I have every right to protect myself and seek my best interests.
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Yes, you could go run off and threaten a lawsuit, FASherman, but what would it accomplish? The destruction of vB? Them altering the flexible licensing agreement already in play?
Where are you getting this from? The only party that would have a need to initiate a lawsuit is Jelsoft.
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It has been the benefit of the community to be able to use and modify vBulletin. Paying for a thing does not necessarily give you the right to destroy a thing.
You are so far off in left field that I'm not going to continue to discuss this with you. Your arguments are illogical and you ascribe actions and motives to people where none have been suggested or even implied.
03-26-2004, 07:23 PM
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