Offsite hack development...

[Logikos]

I'm kinda confused on whats really going on. I don't see WordForge doing anything wrong.

Yes you can download hacks, and install them on your board.
Yes you can give someone else on your board access to to download hacks.
Yes you can give someone else FTP access to add hacks.
Yes you can create your OWN template/and or hack and publish it
Yes you can buy someones site and take over it and run it the way you want.
Yes you can fire someone from your board, even if its the old owner or seconded old owner.

No you can't download someones hack, add it to your site and publish it as your own work, or publish it period.

Hope that clears things up some. Also, theres a few great features on vBulletin. Tachy user, ban user, IP ban user. So if you fire someone, and are afriad they might attempt to do harm to your new site. Change passwords. (board/ftp/cpanel, ect..) and use one of the three great features I happened to mention.

BTW: Nice icons, some look familar

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Elwood Blues

If you have concerns, I'll try to answer them in this post.

None of the concerns listed is the one I had. It was suggested that you were going to take other peoples hacks, from this forum, and make them available on your board for people to see and/or modify. That to me amounts to publishing them without permission.

If this is incorrect information then fine, there is no problem.

In regard to downloading and modifying hacks locally, I believe anyone is free to download a hack and modify it to their own needs as long as neither the original or modified source is made publically available by the said person (without permission).

(BTW, So far, I have never refused permission to anyone who is polite enough to ask )

[Borgs8472]

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of course they can't address the points, if they even understood them in the first place we wouldn't be in this situation.

[baronvonwalz]

Originally Posted by Paul M

None of the concerns listed is the one I had. It was suggested that you were going to take other peoples hacks, from this forum, and make them available on your board for people to see and/or modify. That to me amounts to publishing them without permission.

No, as it would be a violation of the rules of this site, you have to have a vbulletin license in order to view the code that is offered here.

The original plan of this project was to determine community interest in various ideas, and then a few select people handcode a solution. Or if a solution already existed on this site, to use it.

All hacks that are discussed from here don't have their code published, not only would that be wrong, it increases the odds that someone might find a hole in it.

[Elwood Blues]

Originally Posted by Paul M

It was suggested that you were going to take other peoples hacks, from this forum, and make them available on your board for people to see and/or modify. That to me amounts to publishing them without permission.

I assure you that the only people that view the hacks are me (the license holder), and my two desginated technical guys.

They say that the proof is in the pudding. So, look around. We invite all of you to periodically poke around and monitor our progess. We honestly have nothing to hide and we welcome your scrutiny.

But with that said, I hope I've ended this. I apologize again because I have no desire to bring our troubles here. As a general rule, I detest interboard squabbles and I have no desire to have a negative effect on this board because it's been so very helpful to us in the past.

[Borgs8472]

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the hack development forum is hidden to guests

[Xenon]

we have a hackdevelopment forum??

[Revan]

Yeah, but only cool people can see it.

[Xenon]

must mean i am no cool

[Logikos]

Originally Posted by Borgs8472

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the hack development forum is hidden to guests

Originally Posted by Xenon

we have a hackdevelopment forum??

Why can't I stop laughing about this? lol