[Solved] Isn't this a complete rip of phpbb?

[Frost]

I was doing some research on an ajax chat mod that I'm making as an alternative to the one included with integramod and came across a site with a forum called jforum.

I came across it because it is the support forum for said chat. I immediately recognized the setup and graphics used as phpbb, but after I looked at the footer I saw "powered by jforum"

So out of curiosity I decided to follow the link and sure enough they claim it's theirs and was built from the ground up by them...

Quote: "JForum is a powerful and robust discussion board system implemented in Javatm. It provides an attractive interface, an efficient forum engine, an easy to use administrative panel, an advanced permission control system and much more.

Built from the ground up around a MVC framework, it can be deployed on any servlet container or Application Server, such as Tomcat, Resin and JBoss. Its clean design and implementation make JForum easy to customize and extend."

What do you think?

http://www.jforum.net/#big

[Whisky]

Exactly the same then you!

The board IS a phpbb with a subsilver theme!!!
Same structure, same fonctionalities, and even same images <img>

All popular board systems beside phpbb are different and looks different (vbulletin, IPB,...) but not this one...

And look the code, they kept the exact same names for the style sheet classes: row1, row2, menu, gensmall, forumline, cattitle, forumlink, genmed,....

All this board is a phpbb clone, they probably re-coded the engine since this is running with Java but everything in this comes from phpbb and they have not let any credits to the phpbb team! shame on them!

GPL and opensource means also respect to original coders work, they obviously forgot it!

[Dioncecht]

It's obviously phpBB.. pretty sad that they gotta rip off phpBB in order to make a few bucks...

'sides, Integramod is MUCH better!

[Helter]

I know it appears to be phpbb, but the appearance is where the similarity ends. It is built completely different from phpbb2* It does not even use a .tpl template system. At a quick glance, it appears to use html's similar to phpbb3. subSilver is an open source theme with the only requirement being the copyright info in the footer. I imaging thier use of the theme is like us porting phpNuke, or xhtml themes to IntegraMOD. They have done an outstanding job of duplicating the look of the original theme.

[computerz]

I was doing some research on an ajax chat mod that I'm making as an alternative to the one included with integramod and came across a site with a forum called jforum.

I came across it because it is the support forum for said chat. I immediately recognized the setup and graphics used as phpbb, but after I looked at the footer I saw "powered by jforum"

So out of curiosity I decided to follow the link and sure enough they claim it's theirs and was built from the ground up by them...

Quote: "JForum is a powerful and robust discussion board system implemented in Javatm. It provides an attractive interface, an efficient forum engine, an easy to use administrative panel, an advanced permission control system and much more.

Built from the ground up around a MVC framework, it can be deployed on any servlet container or Application Server, such as Tomcat, Resin and JBoss. Its clean design and implementation make JForum easy to customize and extend."

What do you think?

http://www.jforum.net/#big

Definitely a phpbb copycat, no doubt. But what I would also like to know, is how did they get a flash menu to load activated? I thought since that microsoft case last year that active controls are deactivated until you click it on it to use it.

[Frost]

By using...

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<script></script>

with

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        <div></div>         <script>         var flash = new SWFObject("header.swf", "jforum_header", "766", "206", "8");         flash.write("flash_contents");         </script>

Check out the page source
That's probably just plain flash, by a very good designer

[Frost]

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