Ridemonkey
Well-known member
XenForo already puts an area to add copyright notices. If developers choose to ignore this, or to make it big and ugly, it's not on XF to control in my opinion.
I also don't think it should be incumbent on the XenForo developers to make sure you can use add-ons cheaply or for free.
An add-on is a small software package. The developer controls it. Part of using it is the branding - if you don't like it, or if it's too expensive to remove, then you might want to consider a different add-on.
Some guidelines to protect the safety of their customers (such as the guideline to not have external code executing as part of an add-on) are good, but extending that to trivial cosmetic issues like branding notices is getting a little too heavy handed. If developers insist on using terrible branding notices, everyone needs to stop using that add-on. See how fast those ugly copyright banners go away then.
I also don't think it should be incumbent on the XenForo developers to make sure you can use add-ons cheaply or for free.
An add-on is a small software package. The developer controls it. Part of using it is the branding - if you don't like it, or if it's too expensive to remove, then you might want to consider a different add-on.
Some guidelines to protect the safety of their customers (such as the guideline to not have external code executing as part of an add-on) are good, but extending that to trivial cosmetic issues like branding notices is getting a little too heavy handed. If developers insist on using terrible branding notices, everyone needs to stop using that add-on. See how fast those ugly copyright banners go away then.