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[CP-Chris]

Hi Guys,

I am basically sitting on the order page waiting to pay but just have one question really. Is there a mod or even commercial script for vbulletin which allows you to give users there own forum... Ok yes you could just give a user moderator rights but I am wishing to go into more depth.

We are a GSP and wish to give our customers a subforum on our main set of forums for there clan's needs rather than them installing PHPbb via there free webhosting and within 2 weeks it has been hacked to crap because of the mountain of security holes. With there subforum they can add sub forums etc etc. I know it was possible with IPB but I guess because it used to be free and there once stand point that they would never charge for users to use IPB that I strongly refuse to even consider it commercially.

Hope to hear from you soon.

-Chris

[Marco van Herwaarden]

If you are planning to give them a standalone subforum, then you would need a seperate license for each forum you create this way.

[AWS]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

If you are planning to give them a standalone subforum, then you would need a seperate license for each forum you create this way.

I know this has been discussed to death in the past, but are you sure about that?
If I am interpreting the TOS correctly as long as you use one set of vbulletin files on one domain it was OK.
There is even a hack here to do something similiar to this by Amy Carr I believe.

[peterska2]

Yes, this would require a separate license for each forum created as a stand alone forum. This is clearly stated in the license agreement.

[Code Monkey]

bah, you don't need a new license just to give clans some sub-forums. I do it all the time. Just create the private forums and usergroups that can access them. Then make the clan leader the usergroup leader so they can take care of join requests. And then make whoever they want mods of those forums. I ussually give them one public forum as well.

You only need a new license if you are planing on using multiple domains. But for the same domain and same install, you can have thousands of subforums if you so choose.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Please don't post your own intepretation of the license agreement as being correct. If you feel the need to discuss the license agreement, please do so at our official support forums at www.vbulletin.com where you can receive an official reply.

[AWS]

Since the last time I read the agreement it was stated one license = one install + one domain + one database with no mention of different content. I just read it again today and this would indeed be against the license terms. Different content now is in the equation. I think there is still a gray area since it mentioned domains. You go to one domain and see one category and then another category on a different domain or subdomain. This would be one install + one database + multiple domains + different content = not right.
I stand corrected.

[breakaway]

I'm kind of confused here. Aren't you allowed to have a subforum where only certain people with certain permissions can go into it? Even in this forum, for example, people who don't have liscences are not allowed to post in certain subforums.

[Dismounted]

Yes, that is forum permissions and it's standard vBulletin functionality.