Copyright-Layout, Google/UniversalAnalytics push inclusion in your copyright-footer

Marv

Customer
Don´t really know how to start.
Let me put it that way:

I have no problem to support coders by displaying a backlink to their sites in the footer. In your case I would even display a footer on all sites, not only the ones driven by your mods. But there is a big issue with the way you handle the copyright footer.

Carefully spoken, I was a little bit surprised about the pure dominance of your copyright footer:

Downloads Management provided by vBDownloads (Pro) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2014 DragonByte Technologies Ltd.

That´s an incredible huge one - the longest copyright footer I´ve ever seen -, occupies nearly 2/3rd of my sites width and ruins every sites footer, which have a custom footer and makes it impossible for site owners to make use of footer reworks and customization. There has to be another way, cause this one is not only annoying me - that will annoy my users too. The last thing I want to happen by a mod, that should attract visitors. Even more, because my site language is german.

True, in the product decription your pointing out, that this mod will display a copyright footer. But hey..this one is insane and limits site owner in there options how they can change the layout of their sites in an inappropriate way. You really shouldn´t expect from your customers, that they have to accept that they aren´t no longer free to choose how they can modify the layout of their sites, when they want to use modifications by DBTech. Or you should make this point absolutly clear in the descriptions on the product pages.

Could´t you just leave us customers the option to have a copyright link like :
[Mod-Name] © 2014 DragonByte Tech Ltd.
or when using more than one DBTech product
Some Mods © 2014 DragonByte Tech Ltd.
and make "Some Mods" a phrase so it can be translated?
Would solve the whole problem and both sides get, what they need.

Since a week I am overhowling my site and I am also working on a footer, where the copyrights nest in a <td><tr> . What shall I do know? Throw that out of the window because your copyright doesn´t allow to fit in my layout?

Hope that all doesn´t sound rude. But my english isn´t that fluent, that I could express myself as I can in my own language.

Edit: Title of the thread is wrong. First I was thinking something would violate EU law but the Analytics-push isn´t an issue and complies with EU-law. May be someone could edit the title please. Thanks.
 
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You could always look into our Copyright Management modification (free), which can help you condense the footer.

Additionally, we do have a Global Branding Free licence available for users of multiple modifications (works out cheaper if someone has ~7 products installed), rather than buying the Branding Free licence for each modification.

You are literally the first person to ever complain that the width of our copyright footers break their skin layout. I would strongly advise you not to create a layout so narrow that it cannot fit ~500px of text.
 
Unfortunatelly, Marv is right. The copyright info is very big. I want to buy vB5 Shout, but copyright is a reason for which I dont buy the module. I don't want to pay 150euros for a module, price that is near IPBoard"s price which includes chat, and nearly vB's new license price.
 
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