Your vBulletin license is applicable to one installation of vBulletin under your identity, and if you're allowing others to replicate your vBulletin under their name, it violates the policy of having a vBulletin without having a license. If you say the user is using your license, then that violates the rule where the installed vBulletin pertains to only the purchaser of the license.
Those of you with complaints of how having multiple administrators is in violation to the license--well, it isn't, because there is only 1 vBulletin in question there. When you create more than 1 vBulletin with unlicensed administrators, then things are in obvious concern.
The main argument provided against Jelsoft seems to be that this hack doesn't cross any boundaries, and isn't a "whole" vBulletin, but simply utilizies a portion.
To what significance is this portion in regard to vBulletin as a whole?
Well, this hack clearly seems to perform the principle feature of vBulletin--a system for creating and managing forums.
In this affect it goes against the license.
From what I gathered from reading the original hack thread and this one the board and forums would still be under the super admin identify but they allow people to make a forum to mod. As stated there is on one set of files, database, and domain. Now if you (Jelsoft) want to try and find a loop hole then that is up to you but if you are taking the license at face value then this hack should be allowed. As I and a few others have said you can do almost everything this hack does without the hack itself except the automated parts. If I wanted to allow someone to setup a forum on my installation that I am currently using all I would have to do is set them as a mini admin and they can make all the forums they want and Jelsoft wouldn't know. But my question was never answered earlier. What if you have a single vbulletin and have a network of sites and each site wants it's own catergory and forums? Each site has different owners but all site owners are owners under the whole network.
03-24-2004, 09:58 PM
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