license expiration + vb.org

[jibious]

Today at 10:20 PM Smoothie said this in Post #8
for those that purchased their license, expires means your yearly renewal, to download upgrades, patches and such

but in order to use your account over here, you must put in your license information. hence why the question even would come up. what happens if that license information, that your account over here is activated by, expires.

filburt, can you get a definite answer?

[jibious]

Today at 10:29 PM pie said this in Post #10
fair enough. But if vB grows, the hacks will grow on the newer versions.

i agree with you on this. however, vB3 is just around the corner and i doubt very seriously that vB4 is coming out anytime in the next 2 years. i'm sure some people may not care to download updates once a few bug fixes in vB3 have been made.

like i said, i plan to renew next march, but for those who don't want to, this could answer some questions for them...

[filburt1]

12-15-01 at 04:12 PM Scott MacVicar said this in Post #2
If you have an owned liscence, then you are entitled to run vBulletin on your server once the members area access has expired, so you are still liscenced to run vBulletin and hence you will still have access to the hacks.

If you get a leased liscence then once the year is up you should automatically remove your copy of vBulletin anyway.

Scott

[jibious]

gracias filburt

[filburt1]

What the crap is up with reply times...

[pie]

true, personally im sticking with vb2.

but fair enough answer. So vB will still have a lot of bugs in the early versions so if their liscense did run out during vb3.1 (or whatever) they cudnt get vb3.5 etc. when hacks would be tailored for vb3.5

[filburt1]

I very much anticipate a huge load of bugs in 3.0.0 which is why I won't upgrade WDF until at least 3.0.1. However vB2, if you look at it, is written pretty horribly in many parts as well as it is.

[pie]

Fair enough, personally i have no reason to upgrade to vB3 at all. Nothing has perticularly wowwed me. The quick reply isnt "quick". The screen is too cluttered, etc. (i have been told u can turn unquick quick reply off tho)

[Erwin]

The reply time delays have to do with server issues, not vB.org itself.

[Xenon]

as an addition:

you can see the license will stay active so you can download hacks and so on here.
but you can't download the newest vb version on vb.com.
that's why we don't allow the attachment of full vb files as expired users would be able to get those files then...