Does the vB license allows for this? Is it legal?

[jmvb]

Question 1:

Does the VB license allows for this? Is it legal?

$160 vbulletin owned license installed as shown below:

sports.site1.com
Adults.site1.com
Businesses.site1.com
cars.site1.com
pchelp.site1.com

Question 2:

I don't know too much about what I can do or cannot do with vbulletin but can my forum contain adult contents without violating Vbulletin license agreement? I'd say that's none of your business as it is my board (or at least I think so) but I don't know, all these legalities have me confused...

[Onimua]

One Owned License, as does Leased, allowed you to run one installation of vBulletin. So basically, in order to have a different vBulletin board for each of your sub-domains, you must purchase a license for each of them.

As to the second question... there are vBulletin owners with Adult content on their site, so yes, it should be no problem (as long as there are no conflicts with the license agreement).

[jmvb]

Thanks Onimua. Can administration confirm this? Look forward to your response.

[Creepshow]

Thanks Onimua. Can administration confirm this? Look forward to your response.

I'm not admin or anything, but you can definitely have adult content on your vB. LOADS of sites do it, trust me. I can think of about 10 off the top of my head.

[Martin]

Question 1:

Does the VB license allows for this? Is it legal?

$160 vbulletin owned license installed as shown below:

sports.site1.com
Adults.site1.com
Businesses.site1.com
cars.site1.com
pchelp.site1.com

That would require 5 seperate licenses since it is 5 seperate installations.

Question 2:

I don't know too much about what I can do or cannot do with vbulletin but can my forum contain adult contents without violating Vbulletin license agreement? I'd say that's none of your business as it is my board (or at least I think so) but I don't know, all these legalities have me confused...

Unless your content is illegal and is reported to us, then your license will be revoked.

As for adult content, that's your business, but we will not include it in the links directory.

[ManagerJosh]

Correct me if I'm wrong Martin, but I thought we could use aliases as long as they point to exact same copies of the vBulletin installation.

ie. site1.com is the exact same as site2.com

[Martin]

That doesn't sound like what he's proposing.

If he is talking about using a URL redirection to point to a specific category (ie: pchelp) then it would be legal, as long as he is only using a single installation of the board.

[CMilne]

You could do what I am thinking of doing. Getting a different skin for each category of my forums, removing the link to the 'MAIN' forum/category listing, and then having each sub-url redirect to the category on my main url. Thus it would appear as if I had multiple different installations, when in fact, I only have one.

E.g. gaming.mydomain.tld would redirect to forums.mydomain.tld/forumdisplay.php?f=15

[jmvb]

You could do what I am thinking of doing. Getting a different skin for each category of my forums, removing the link to the 'MAIN' forum/category listing, and then having each sub-url redirect to the category on my main url. Thus it would appear as if I had multiple different installations, when in fact, I only have one.

E.g. gaming.mydomain.tld would redirect to forums.mydomain.tld/forumdisplay.php?f=15

Good idea Cmilne. I might have to do that. Vbulletin people should allow more than one installation as long as it is in the same domain. Maybe charge $5 extra for a set numbers of subdomain installations to be fair. With a move like that, it will drive all members from IPb and other boards to vbulletin.

[Sovereign]

Maybe charge $5 extra...

Don't give them ideas!

[Martin]

Vbulletin people should allow more than one installation as long as it is in the same domain. Maybe charge $5 extra for a set numbers of subdomain installations to be fair. With a move like that, it will drive all members from IPb and other boards to vbulletin.

No we shouldn't. What advantage is there to us? Instead of buying multiple licenses for multiple sites, people would just do:

xbox.mysite.com
realitytv.mysite.com
politics.mysite.com

etc.

The only thing your idea does is cost us money. Our quality and the quality of our support already gets a large number of people from IPB.

[roscoe36]

The only thing your idea does is cost us money. Our quality and the quality of our support already gets a large number of people from IPB.

Darn straight.

[KimmiKat]

$5 is to cheap anyway. Plus it's something else to keep track of and answer bizillion questions. It would have to be at least $80 or up to be worth it.

Anyway the current system has been working good for many moons.

[CMilne]

Yeah, perhaps slightly discounted, like $70 for additional sub-domain installations instead of $85 ( for yearly ) or $130 instead of $160 ( for full ), and you have to have a full license for the domain, and then a sub-domain-license for each sub-domain of your primary domain you run it on.

Not a bad idea really, mind you, they'd have to make up new rules to prevent people from mis-using and re-selling, e.g. username.domain.tld.

[ManagerJosh]

It's my understanding what Floris is doing right now is completely permissible. One set of files, just basically a mod_rewrite via apache.

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