License for read-only archived forum necessary?

[cbiweb]

I'm posting this here because it may end up being a pre-sales topic, depending on the answer I get.

I run a new community that was born from one that recently closed; the new site is evolving into a whole new place with a new direction and goals. I'm going to create a whole sub-section of the site that will be a historical record of where we came from. Part of that history will include a read-only clone of the old vBulletin powered community that was closed. It will contain all the old posts and everything. There will be no posting allowed - ever - and will exist purely as a historical record for viewing; like a museum you could say.

Because of the nature of this project, it will be using its own original database and setup as a standalone community, so my question is: will I need to buy a second license for that, even though it will be read-only, and never used?

[Steve Machol]

Yes, that would require a second license.

[cbiweb]

Ok, no problem. Just curious, though, why a second license for something like that?

[Steve Machol]

Because it's a second public copy of vBulletin.

[cbiweb]

Ok. I guess I was thinking that 'public' meant active, posting allowed, that sort of thing. I'll buy a leased license to start, in case there's not much interest in the archive, in which case I can cut it loose in a year without having spent the extra $$ for an owned license.

[Zonex]

Not sure if this will help but you can use Impex to import all those old post into a subforum and make it read only. Delete all the users from that old forum that get imported and their names will stay but it will just say n/a under them and not really be an active member.

If you need help, ask in the Impex forum.