Not Supported = Abandoned

hum, guys, copyleft, you know?!... everything coded with vB code in it can't have a different copyright than vBulletin until you state it in a seperate license... so until further change from all the releases here, your code follow the copyright applied to vBulletin

[Keyser S?ze]

well, what about an option when releasing, like there is for not supported/supported for members to select ppl can modify this

something like that

[iogames]

Originally Posted by Keyser S?ze

well, what about an option when releasing, like there is for not supported/supported for members to select ppl can modify this

something like that

you never give up Uh?

although Copyright Law is very subjective here, we must learn to respect each other works

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by Keyser S?ze

well, what about an option when releasing, like there is for not supported/supported for members to select ppl can modify this

something like that

It already exists... Read my post above.

Of course people can always release their addons under the LGPL, Mozilla or BSD style licenses or the Creative Commons License. They would have to state that in their release though. GPL wouldn't work because its viral and would be against the vBulletin license agreement.

[Logician]

All my hacks are marked as "unsupported" although I believe I support them QUITE well.

"Unsupported" in my terminology means: "I'm sharing this free hack for the sake of the community and will try to assist as much as possible but please don't confuse this application with something you are a paid customer and be understanding when asking help instead of being demanding and impatient."

So let's not try to give this completely different meaning like "abondoned" which definetely is not. There are a lot of very advanced hack released here and changing a policy in the site, does not give anybody legal right to claim anything on their code without coder's consent.

If you think some good hacks are lost in the dust, why don't you simply code your own versions of them.

[Boofo]

Hey, buddy!

[KURTZ]

'Supported' should be that an author give to the installers some upgrades, obviously if his/her hack begin obsolete (Jelsoft releases an update per month), also should be that if an installer has a trouble he/she can give a hand to who has troubles .... we can translate supported in 'help' for the members

this means 'supported' (in italian 'supportato') ... but sometimes we had some add-on that are marked with the 'V' logo, but in realty we haven't any support from the author, maybe the community needs a better control over this by the Crew of this Site ... repeat: maybe

[Keyser S?ze]

ill give a good example, the mod "browser on whos online" it has a serious problem and needs to be updated, but the maker doesnt seem interested, so i dunno, i would think its better to let someone else than let it fall to a graveyard

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=133784

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Keyser S?ze

maybe its just me but i feel if a hack (mod) is selected as not supported it should really be free for someone else to pick up where it was left off, giving props to the original creator pf course

seems like such a waste to have a great idea be stuck at an earlier version of vb cuz the original creator either cant or wont update it

i mean we do allow addon mods

That's not necessarily the case... I list several of my addons as not-supported because I don't guarantee to support them. When the supported icon was on I'd get messages from people upset that I hadn't responded in hours... without out there's a little more forgiveness. In no way are these addons not being developed or used, I simply don't make promises I won't keep. By the same token, there's a lot of great mods out there with supported checked that don't get support... as time elapses, things change and people get busy. What they checked on a form doesn't really tell where they stand a year later.

[Boofo]

And then there's boneheads like Boofo...