Mr Lucky
Well-known member
Is it an ethical or a legal issue? There is certainly a legal issue for any developer taking the software and "repairing" (buffing) or "rewriting"so I couldn't see the ethical issue with someone taking over the add-on,
From Addonflare T & C:
The User may not endeavor to reverse engineer any specific section of the software
But at the same time you could argue the T&C are breached by Addonflare not giving the support which is advertised.
Product licenses include "Regular" support as long as the license is active (not expired).
"Priority/Premium" support is available for purchase as a license extra.
We do not guarantee support for free licenses.
Support is provided during business hours only. Tickets submitted outside of these time frames will be reviewed the following business day.
So although you may have a good legal argument, do you want to risk the potential cost of litigation? Some companies may just "try it on" and even if they lose you (the defendant) may not get compensated.
But I think if you wrote the code from scratch to create a Paid Registration addon , there is no ethical reason you, m shouldn't even if Addonflare was stile developing and supporting. Just because Haynes have a repair manual for land rovers, does make it unethical for me to write my own manual - as long as I write it in my one words and pictures don't just paraphrase theirs (easy with AI).