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| Developer(s) | vBulletin Solutions, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2000; 24 years ago (2000) |
| Written in | PHP |
| Platform | PHP, MySQL |
| Type | Forum software |
| License | Commercial proprietary software |
| Website | vbulletin |
vBulletin (vB) is a proprietary Internet forum software package developed by vBulletin Solutions, Inc., a division of Internet Brands. It is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database server.
On 22 July 2010 the BBC reported that there was a serious flaw in vBulletin software that allows anyone to easily access the database username and password.
On 4 October 2010, "Internet Brands commenced a lawsuit in the courts of England and Wales against XenForo, and its founders, Kier, Mike and Ashley". On 29 October 2010, Internet Brands filed a second lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California through its wholly owned subsidiary vBulletin Solutions, Inc. against XenForo Ltd., and its founders Kier, Mike and Ashley. The lawsuit alleges "widespread infringement and unlawful exploitation" of vBulletin's source code and "equally damaging misappropriation of trade secrets" developed and owned by vBulletin with "investments of millions of dollars over the last ten years." The lawsuit further alleges that the developers of XenForo Ltd. "took with them virtually every type of document a competitor would need to enter the market and unlawfully create a competing bulletin board software program."
On 27 February 2013, it was announced by the lawyers of XenForo, that a confidential settlement had been reached, dismissing all claims against them.
vBulletin 4 was released 21 December 2009. The StyleVars system was added to draw CSS variables directly from the vBulletin Template code.
vBulletin's main character encoding is ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8. If a customer wants to use vBulletin with language not supported by ISO-8859-1 they must make their own changes to the code.
References
- Fildes, Jonathan (2010-07-22). "BBC News". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
- "Internet Brands claims against Xenforo". Vbulletin.com. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
- Metz, Cade (2010-11-04). "Forumware giant vBulletin sues ex-devs (again)". The Register. Retrieved 2010-11-11.
- ("Grace+Grace LLP Celebrates Dismissal of Internet Brands Litigations". Grace+Grace. Archived from the original on 2013-03-03.
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