http://digg.com/software/PirateReports_revokes_vBulletin_license_of_HongFire_com_for_moral_reasons
http://www.hongfire.com/
http://www.hongfire.com/vbulletin.txt
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=213539
http://blogs.dirtyworker.com/2006/12/23/vbulletin-license-problems/

One of your main competitors vBulletin, have some crazy idiotic license. They say that they have the right to close any site when they don't like the content. As in this site which has loli (anime sex thing), then Jelsoft (or PirateReports) did inactive their license just because they don't wanna be associated with that content.

Please say that UBB Threads don't have that kind of nasty licesing.

There doesn't seem to be any mention of restrictions on the kinds of content.

http://www.ubbcentral.com/terms.php

I am glad if UBB Threads has a honest license. I am actually considering buying UBB Central even though the price is high.

Although it would be a good idea to open up a support ticket with management to be sure about something like this.

I'm ultiamtely sure that groupee doesn't give two toots about what content you run on your site; they're not affiliated with you afterall, you're just simply using their software...

This would be like microsoft flipping out on you for using linux...

Alright, I am awaiting an answer from someone at UBB Central, so I can be 100 % sure about it.

Would be cool if anyone of the staff or support could post in this thread.

If it is like you say Gizmo, then I like it, I like that attitude.

Rick is the sole programmer on UBB.threads, the only other staff from Groupee that I've seen post here is Dave, and he's not on the UBB7 project to the best of my knowledge.

No, once you buy the software it's yours to use on your website. You pay the money for the license and we're not affiliated with the site beyond providing the software that is used. In the 10 years that I've been working on this software that thought has never even entered my mind.

Thank you Rick. I am glad you have a honest license, exactly as it it should be! You buy the software, it isn't affiliated to the forums (quite obvious) and you do whatever you want with it.

PS, if you could lower the pricing, I am sure that would be good for the competition, because this is a great forum, just a little bit expensive! DS.

What does the license exactly do? Gives you the power to install it on a server or one active install? What is it there for?

The analogy that comes to mind for me would be comparing forum software with the file sharing networks that have come under scrutiny for having illegal content available. Yet I sort of think that if a site has illegal content, then law enforcement would go after the forum's owner and not the software vendor.