Yea I know that why I make sure to write _everything_ powerportal myself. 
1 2004-12-24 14:18
Re: Licences (6 replies, posted in General discussion)
2 2004-12-24 05:52
Re: FORUM concurent users stats (2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
It all depends on how many users your server can handle. I'm not an it professional or anything but I believe that most network data centers use technologies such as load balancing to distribute server load and stuff.
I do know that any one server should be able to handle 150 concurrent users using punbb. 150 users isn't that many(I've had "Most members ever online was 425 on Aug 26 2003, 08:35 PM" and the server was just fine) and punbb isn't that heavy on the db.
3 2004-12-24 04:21
Topic: Licences (6 replies, posted in General discussion)
I have this piece of software that I wrote a while back. When I first released it I didn't know much(anything) about software licenses, and the truth is that I"m still sketchy on the subject. I ignorantly released the piece under GPL(being pressured into choosing from a list of liceneses). Now I am considering what to change the license to. I don't know anything about licenses, does anyone know what kind of license would fit these qualifications?
- You can't take my software and redistribute it under a different name
- You can't steal parts of the code and claim it as yours
- You can't resell the software
Thanks
John
4 2004-12-24 00:19
Re: PunBB & PowerPortal Integration (9 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
Thanks I'll take a look at those. But before I do I need to know if I can legally do this. I know forums systems such as openbb don't allow redistribution of any forum, so that pretty much closes it out from the cms market(and really limits their publicitiy, not even sure if anyone knows what openbb is anymore).
5 2004-12-23 18:49
Re: PunBB & PowerPortal Integration (9 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
would it be a seamless integrtation? one user registration and the portal and forums could share info such as using the forums for a news posting area via: externnews or rss/xml feed or something.
Well here is the thing, I downloaded punbb, checked out the db structure. And we actually use a similiar db structure(ex: we both use some of the same table names and we both use the same logical method of naming fields[lowercase and underscores]).
Not exactly sure how seamless the integration would be. I don't want to go to an exteme with the integration> I really don't want to have to write thousands of lines of code for mod, just for a new version of punbb to come out in a week and be forced to rewrite everything from scratch.
Edit:
have you considered submitting PowerPortal to www.opensourcecms.com?
Yea, I've gotten emails from a few of those types of sites. They usually want you to fill out some long boring application. Unfortantely I haven't had the time to sit down and fully fill out one of these applications. 
6 2004-12-22 22:20
Topic: PunBB & PowerPortal Integration (9 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
I was wondering if it would be possible for me to publically release a port of punbb that would work with the PowerPortal system. I think that designing a forums system from scratch for a portal system is unreasonable because it just requires so much maintenance and updating that it simply would not be feasable for any one person to manage.
I am a fan of PunBB because its fast, not overly complicated, and is flexible. Could I legally release a PunBB port with PowerPortal? I would of course keep all of the copyrights and such.
Before jumping to a conclusion you should consider the advantages. It garentee that it would attract tons of new users to your forums system.
Thanks
John