I visited some forums with any liscence of Jelsoft

[leoy2kpk]

HI all,

On net i visited some website where i got there forum of VB install but their is no tag like this


Powered by vBulletin Version x.x.x
Copyright ©2000 - 2006, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
I want to ask VB Team, what is this means,
1) They are using illegal forums?
2) They purchased VB with BIG Amount so they removed Jelsoft Code?

Or any thing else..................please don't ask me for mention about these forums...........as i got a lot of from Google.

Thanks

[TruthElixirX]

You can pay to have that removed.

[Creepshow]

please don't ask me for mention about these forums...........as i got a lot of from Google.

"Please don't ask me for mention about these forums..." -- Hmm, sounds fishy to me. ;)

[WurkAnimal]

You can pay to have that removed.

But he hasn't or the version will still be there.

Report here.

www.vbulletin.com/piracy

[DirectPixel]

But he hasn't or the version will still be there.

Report here.

www.vbulletin.com/piracy (http://www.vbulletin.com/piracy)
:confused: What are you talking about? "He hasn't" what? There's no URL mentioned, so how do you know? You can easily do a version check by going to their admincp directory.

[TygerTyger]

But he hasn't or the version will still be there.

Report here.

www.vbulletin.com/piracy (http://www.vbulletin.com/piracy)

He simply says the copyright notice is not there, so they could well have paid for the removal.

[Creepshow]

But he hasn't or the version will still be there.

Report here.

www.vbulletin.com/piracy (http://www.vbulletin.com/piracy)

Um, you can remove the version number you know.

[WurkAnimal]

Um, you can remove the version number you know.

I thought you wasn't allowed to change / edit the version number? isn't that bit of the copyright?

:confused:

[DirectPixel]

A version number has nothing to do with the copyright. Even if you didn't purchase the brand-free option, you can remove the version number if you like.

[KimmiKat]

According to one of the staff in another thread, the minimum acceptable copyright you can do is:

"vBulletin, Copyright ©2000 - 2006, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd."

[Kier]

Correct, the smallest possible copyright notice is

vBulletin, Copyright ©2000 - [year of most recent vBulletin release], Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

... obviously inserting the correct copyright year in the place marked.

[Tree]

If you purchase the branding-free version, then that can be removed right?

[TalkMilitary]

If you purchase the branding-free version, then that can be removed right?

Right

[leoy2kpk]

What are you talking guys :eek:...........How much you have to give for liscence removal?

I visited one VB forum, at which Gaming portal is added, before purchasing my own VB i want to know that from where that forum got that Game scripts or wrote his own?????

Or is their any option on VB to add some Games on it?????

[Tree]

Or is their any option on VB to add some Games on it?????

There's quite a few arcade scripts. vBarcade, most notably.

[Greps]

I wish I could change the copyright to "powered by magic (http://www.vbulletin.com/) and pixies (http://www.vbulletin.org/)" withoug paying extra money for branding free :D

[Floris]

Branding does NOT permit to rebrand the software. You pay for permission to remove the copyright, you're not paying to own the copyright.

[yihsiung]

Branding does NOT permit to rebrand the software. You pay for permission to remove the copyright, you're not paying to own the copyright.

Dear sir,

I had purchased the brand free option and few questions about it:

1. Is there any easy way to activate 'brand free'? or it's trivial jobs to remove line by line? Modify installation script seems to be brand free but not all. :o
2. Can I use something like 'Enhanced by XXX' to replace the copyright declaration?

I'm appreciated if you can help me ASAP.
Thanks.

[Colin F]

1. You'll have to remove the branding yourself, there's no switch and it's not automatic.
2. As long as that doesn't give the impression that it's a different software that shouldn't be a problem.

[Mazinger]

Branding does NOT permit to rebrand the software. You pay for permission to remove the copyright, you're not paying to own the copyright.
He linked to vBulletin.com & vBulletin.org.

But vBulletin.org doesn't own the copyright. :D

[Mazinger]

When someone with a branding free license download vB from the Members Area, the copyright info is automatically removed from their zip file. This was just added recently.


Just recently.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Please don't reply to discussions that have months ago ended.

[Mazinger]

Sorry. I didn't see the date of posting. :)

I supposed it's recent one.

[JakeS]

Correct, the smallest possible copyright notice is

vBulletin, Copyright ©2000 - [year of most recent vBulletin release], Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

... obviously inserting the correct copyright year in the place marked.
So if i wanted to change it to


vBulletin, Copyright ©2006

I couldn't?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

As Kier posted.