Separate Autonomous Communities within 1 Installation

[Till]

Originally Posted by MThornback

Its not a matter of more advanced hacks Till...I think it falls uncomfortably close to a breach of their licence agreement is all...i'm sure a staff member will either confirm that or give you the answer properly eventually

You mean, because forum hosting is not allowed?

[cheekymonk3y]

probably.....because you could create something similar to invisionfree.com, call it vbulletinfree.com and allow people to create vbulletin forums on your site (its not exact comparision but still similar)

[Till]

Originally Posted by cheekymonk3y

probably.....because you could create something similar to invisionfree.com, call it vbulletinfree.com and allow people to create vbulletin forums on your site (its not exact comparision but still similar)

No, I am not after seperate forums really. I want members of my community to be able to form what I call groups - similar to Flickr's pool idea. I checked out Zoints (local) last night and it looks like it does everything I want - and more.

So I don't see this "legal" problem.

[WetWired]

Originally Posted by http://www.vbulletin.com/order/license_agreement.php

vBulletin licence grants you the right to run one instance (a single installation) of the Software on one web server and one web site for each licence purchased. Each licence may power one instance of the Software on one domain. For each installed instance of the Software, a separate licence is required. Modifications to the software or database to circumvent the one-license-one-board rule are prohibited.

Basically, if one instance of vB appears to the users to be multiple separate boards, it would be considered being "Modifications to the software or database to circumvent the one-license-one-board rule". This is what you seem to be asking for.

[KrisP]

I wonder if such a hack has been publiced anyhow? I mean on another website than bulletin.org?

[Till]

Not that I know.

I am not sure if Zoints does everything yet. It does a lot of what we need, I am not sure about the groups. We are actually tinkering with the idea of building an external app and briding the user authorization (and essentially administration) with vbulletin.

The group idea I have primarily revolves around how Flickr treats groups/pools. So I still don't see a license issue here.

Last but not least, I'd like a staff member to comment where exactly this could be a problem and so on. I have yet to hear a comment - I even enquired using the form on vbulletin.com and I am yet waiting for a response.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Wetwired gave the correct answer.

What is the link to your vB.com thread?