The principle of publishing the source code for the phpBB website isn't intended to allow people to make clone websites as you suggest, but rather to allow people to freely contribute to help improve the phpBB website, learn from the source code or even use components from the source code in your own projects. This principle is the same for any website that decides to publish its source code under a GPL or MIT licence. It doesn't give you the right to create a website to pass off as them though.
bastones wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2018 10:46 am
The principle of publishing the source code for the phpBB website isn't intended to allow people to make clone websites as you suggest, but rather to allow people to freely contribute to help improve the phpBB website, learn from the source code or even use components from the source code in your own projects. This principle is the same for any website that decides to publish its source code under a GPL or MIT licence. It doesn't give you the right to create a website to pass off as them though.
What you see on github (phpbb website) is just a symfony project. Anyone can create it in just few mins with composer or symfony app)
"The good news is hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination.
The bad news is, whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create." - Harmony Cobel
The license of the website is clearly shown on the github link, so if you read that, you can understand what you can do with it and what you can't.
Keep in mind that this is not the full site (It doesn't include specific private pages), and as such it might not work. We also won't be able to provide any support when using it.