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Originally posted by Shriveled Toe:
Stealing? I didn't know there was a cost associated with your code.
Well, Mr. Toe there is no cost associated with my code, but it's my intellectual property and I share it with hundreds of other UBB fanatics
for free. I worked many hours on Stats Hack and used a lot of my free time to create it and to keep it up to date. The only thing I want for that in response is this little link which isn't even a real copyright on the bottom of a sub page which nobody ever vists.
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[qb]Originally posted by Shriveled Toe:
How does infopop feel about your "copyright" of something based on their intellectual property?[/qb]
I can't see this sign
© in connection with my name in Stats Hack. It just says
Stats Hack v1.3 for UBB6 by Tovok7. Infopop's copyright to the board is still there and not controverted.
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Originally posted by Shriveled Toe:
Based on what you're doing, I'd say I've made enough modifications to your hack to call it my own and put my own copyright there.
Shriveled, what I did is an
addition to the UBB and only there is the little hint that this addtion is written by myself. If you wrote a second Stats Page, feel free to add your own copyright to it.
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[qb]Originally posted by Shriveled Toe:
I've been more than impressed with the general attitude about sharing and programming for the good of all around here, and out of all the great hacks available, yours seems to be the only one with a copyright line.[/qb]
Maybe you can give me some examples? When I got into the UBB scene it was more than common to add a little copyright to your hack. Despite of that I didn't add copyrights to my early hacks. Stats Hack is with distance the most extensive hack I wrote and that's why it is the only one with a small hint to the author of it.
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Originally posted by Shriveled Toe:
God know's, If LK enforced the same idea about copyrights, We would all have a list of copyright notices about 6 or 7 deep at the bottom of each page.
Hyperbole isn't a stylistic device that fits you.
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[qb]Originally posted by Shriveled Toe:
I think you are being extremely foolish, and selfish. You should take extreme pride in knowing that the stats hack is very good and that, judging by this thread, many people are using it with satisfaction.[/qb]
How should other people profit from this if they don't know where to get this hack, if there isn't a link to the source of it? That there is the little word
Tovok7 which nobody knows has nothing to do with selfishness.
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Originally posted by Shriveled Toe:
I think that out of all the people who are going to look at the stats page, none of the common users are going to give a flying #$#%@ who holds the copyright. The only people for whom your name recognition will count are those of us around here that are actually using the hack.
What about people being not from UBBDev who never heard of Stats Hack and maybe want to get this hack, too? How should they know that it's not part of UBB and where to get it?
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[qb]Originally posted by Shriveled Toe:
Maybe you can tell us why this is so *extremely* important to you, or make us understand why your hacks are so different from everyone elses? Until then, don't break your arm trying to pat yourself on the back.[/qb]
In general, my hack
_ isn't different from the others but I used many of my free hours to code for the communtiy. Hours which other people get payed with many bucks. The only payment I wanted to have was this little notice. I shared my work with the condition that the copyright has to remain intact. And if there is somebody who doesn't agree to this, he will not be forced to use my hack.
Edited by LK: Toe asked me to remove his real name
