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Abe1 · #1 07-30-2006, 11:59 PM

I'm posting this here to hear what other coders thing of this.

I got a PM from ‘albibak’, a ‘Team Member’ from www.vbulletin-france.com. He was requesting permission to translate me hacks to French. I normally allow such types of requests but www.vbulletin-france.com is the unofficial French support website for vb. One click to their site showed me that all there hacks are open to anyone who wants to download them.

This idea of letting anyone download hacks without verifying they have a vb license doesn’t sound too good. Anyone can then translate the hack back to English and enjoy it on their non-licensed site. Most hacks don’t have that many phrases and can take a minute or two to fully translate the whole hack.

I would like to know why coders here would give such permissions.

oninuva · #2 07-31-2006, 12:10 AM

Well First of All They do not need any translation at all...

VbHackers.com has most of the good "English" hacks already. Well all the good ones atleast. So Yeah. See What I mean?

Billspaintball · #3 07-31-2006, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Abe1

Most hacks don?t have that many phrases and can take a minute or two to fully translate the whole hack.

If they are bi-lingual that is. If they cant read French + the language they are translating to it would take quite a bit longer than that.

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I would like to know why codes here would give such permissions.

Why not?
Why should I restrict my Hacks to English?
If there is an "Official" vB site for that language then they would get preference, but if there isant than an unofficial one is welcome to translate mine.

Code Monkey · #4 07-31-2006, 12:43 AM

It doesn't matter. All the hacks are on pirate sites anyways. Thinking they are safe here is fools gold.

Abe1 · #5 07-31-2006, 01:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Billspaintball

Why not?
Why should I restrict my Hacks to English?
If there is an "Official" vB site for that language then they would get preference, but if there isant than an unofficial one is welcome to translate mine.

That is not the point of my post. The post is that you are releasing your hack to the public. If you would do it in French, why not here in English? Why have the validating process here? We are protecting our hacks here. Sending it there, is making them un-protected.

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Originally Posted by JumpD

It doesn't matter. All the hacks are on pirate sites anyways. Thinking they are safe here is fools gold.

So why not make this place open to the public already?

You don't have to make it easy for them.

jlaine · #6 07-31-2006, 01:18 AM

At least the proposed translator is attempting to do the right thing and ask permission, although JumpD does have a valid point - the pirates find their way in anyway.

Code Monkey · #7 07-31-2006, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Abe1

So why not make this place open to the public already?

You don't have to make it easy for them.

It is easy for them. Members of this site who are licensed give it to them and/or are them. It's a nasty world out there and they know jelsoft doesn't care and the members here don't have the money or resources to care. So until Richie Rich gets into coding vb hacks, that's the way it will be.

Allan · #8 07-31-2006, 05:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abe

I'm posting this here to hear what other coders thing of this.

I got a PM from ‘albibak’, a ‘Team Member’ from www.vbulletin-france.com. He was requesting permission to translate me hacks to French. I normally allow such types of requests but www.vbulletin-france.com is the unofficial French support website for vb. One click to their site showed me that all there hacks are open to anyone who wants to download them.

This idea of letting anyone download hacks without verifying they have a vb license doesn’t sound too good. Anyone can then translate the hack back to English and enjoy it on their non-licensed site. Most hacks don’t have that many phrases and can take a minute or two to fully translate the whole hack.

I would like to know why coders here would give such permissions.

Why not ?

I would be charmed to divide my hack and styles on English sites, why not the reverse, that engage only me, not Jelsoft.

This reaction kills the community I find, vBulletin must last by the international sites, that be or not official, that helps the world community multi-language.

[high]* Allan angry ..[/high]

Milad · #9 07-31-2006, 05:44 AM

There is no problem, you have to thank hem because he asks you before such doing.
Second you can ask him to translate, then you add the language file with you hack here plus his translation credits.

Ziki · #10 07-31-2006, 06:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JumpD

It doesn't matter. All the hacks are on pirate sites anyways. Thinking they are safe here is fools gold.

Agreed.It's just like you have a friend and he is running a cracked vb (I had one and he got reported

) and he request a hack from you he saw here

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