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Originally Posted by Dean C

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, but that's my decision to make, not anyone elses It's also important to remember the benefits of posting modifications here. I released quite a few in my earlier days here, and offered regular support throughout the forums. It served as a gateway for me to get lots of clients. Now, if Joe Bloggs comes along and takes one of my old mods, and releases it with a few fixes, who's to say that he won't get any potential commercial benefit.

At the end of the day you can argue, whine and say what you like about this subject, but peoples work remains copyrighted to them, and no-one else. Nothing you do, vBulletin.org does, can change that

The important fact that you are completely ignoring is that when people start using mods they become dependent upon them. The better the mod, the more dependent. Take one of the most popular mods, for example, (either) arcade. Say the next release of vB broke it and the author couldn't be bothered to update it. How many THOUSANDS of people would then be demanding that their favourite forum administrators get their arcade going again?
The admin of those forums would be left stranded and with vBulletin.org's current policy, nobody could adopt the hack.