PHPBB Forums, yet no credit?

Post » Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:04 pm

Having my own PhpBB board, it's very obvious that the myCrisis forums is powered by PHPBB. You can even check in the source code of the pages:

Code:
   

So why is it that there is no mention, at all, of any of the hard work of the people who made phpBB?
It's not hard to include a small notice at the bottom of the forum pages guys...

If you wanted to get really technical, what you've done might even be illegal:
Since the main skin, prosilver, is licenced under the GPL:
Code:
# @package phpBB3
# @copyright (c) 2005 phpBB Group
# @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU Public License

you went right ahead and retricted access to the /styles/ directory of the board, and hence you've made the source of the skin unaccessable. I don't think anybody really cares all that much about this, but really, how damn hard is it to give credit where it's due?
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