UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Chit Chat Clarification on the Freeware relicensing

I'm starting this in a new thread so that it will get noticed among the others.

IF YOU ALREADY DOWNLOADED YOUR FREEWARE VERSION AND HACKED IT, YOU ARE NOT IMPACTED BY THE NEW LICENSE. The new license ONLY IMPACTS NEW FREEWARE DOWNLOADS.

Just to say it again - if you have a hacked freeware now, you're fine, there's nothing you need to worry about.

(ObDisclaimer: I'm not an Infopop employee, I just moderate. )

thanks for the note charles.... we did reopen your other acct, if you want to use it...

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

WB CC! Good to see you here!

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Cyber-Poetry.com
UBB Layout Designer/Affiliate

Thanks for the clarification and howdy Charles... WB.

A little more clarification might be needed..

IF someone has a hacked Freeware version, can they continue to hack it? Or do they stop from here on out?

(sounds simple, but I bet some are wondering)

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Cyber-Poetry.com
UBB Layout Designer/Affiliate

thats still being discussed, actually. there are some on both sides. I however, think that we can continue to, and I have been.

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-david
I stand on my head and watch it all go away.

Make sure you do not continue to distribute your hacks in anyway.

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

official wording;

Thanks Jeologic! I guess that clears up THAT question.

The thing is.. UBBDEV had to remove the mods from the database and freeware forums because there is no way for us to determine who has a new freeware download vs. the old.

Yup, Oh well I paid my 200.00

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Cyber-Poetry.com
UBB Layout Designer/Affiliate

This message has been edited by C_P on October 01, 2000 at 09:04 PM

LOL.. me too C_P. (more than once.)

Vragor, UBBDEV plans on doing our best to honour Infopops request regarding the license agreement and hopefully the users will as well. As you may have noticed all but one of the freeware forums is back up, albeit cleaned out. The freeware database will be turned back on also but we must review some of the hacks first.

BTW, The Freeware Beta Mods threads are still intact and we will be checking the material in them ASAP. We appreciate any help users can give and encourage everyone to have a little patience while the necessary changes are made.

Cheers!
Deb

Thanks for restoring my old account, Allen.

I just have a question on this, not that what I say will make a difference or not.

UBBDEV admins and mods seem to have good contact with InfoPop, so why don't you try to work out something inbetween?

Basically what I mean is this, ok there were/are probably many hacks for the freeware version that have code straight out of the full version, but there are also many that have fresh code by people learning programming that add function to the board without infringing on infopops copyrites.

So intellectually infopop is styming creativity of young minds that are building future skills for tomorrows web apps.

Many other software/hardware vendors have sucessfully handled these type of issues by sub-licencing in this case "infopop" approved addon's.

Infopop let's you submit your hacks and approves them for distrubution, you get a tick mark on your resume for having recognised authoring, infopop controls it's software modifications and copyrites.

Bang!