Live Help Addon Query

[disgruntled]

Hi. Just wondered something and i hope that somebody can help me out here. I am wondering why the two are different, and why the WHMCS version has a clear plug for WHMCS there. I dont mean plug in, i mean PLUG. I buy an unbranded license i expect UNBRANDING, not hidden branding.

 

Of course there are copyright notices in the whmcs files. These should stay intact, but by placing them inside php comments this allows the coding for the large part to be inbranded, but i found over 1900 individual branding points when i did a search on the files for "whmcs".

 

I dont know about you but i feel somewhat ripped off by this "unbranding" when infact its clearly branded very deeply. If i was selling unbranded reseller hosting i am sure i would be put out of very quickly if i was to brand my source code all over the place but here whmcs is doing it.

 

Star Develop Version of the header script.

<!-- stardevelop.com Live Help International Copyright - All Rights Reserved //-->
<!-- BEGIN stardevelop.com Live Help Messenger Code - Copyright - NOT PERMITTED TO MODIFY COPYRIGHT LINE / LINK //-->
<script type="text/JavaScript" src="/livehelp/scripts/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
   var LiveHelpSettings = {};
   LiveHelpSettings.server = 'www.example.com/whmcs/modules';
   LiveHelpSettings.embedded = true;
   (function(d, $, undefined) {
       $(window).ready(function() {
           // JavaScript
           var LiveHelp = d.createElement('script'); LiveHelp.type = 'text/javascript'; LiveHelp.async = true;
           LiveHelp.src = ('https:' == d.location.protocol ? 'https://' : 'http://') + LiveHelpSettings.server + '/livehelp/scripts/jquery.livehelp.js';
           var s = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
           s.parentNode.insertBefore(LiveHelp, s);
       });
   })(document, jQuery);
-->
</script>
<!-- END stardevelop.com Live Help Messenger Code - Copyright - NOT PERMITTED TO MODIFY COPYRIGHT LINE / LINK //-->

 

WHMCS Version of the same Script

<!-- stardevelop.com Live Help International Copyright - All Rights Reserved //-->
<!--  BEGIN stardevelop.com Live Help Messenger Code - Copyright - NOT PERMITTED TO MODIFY COPYRIGHT LINE / LINK //-->
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var LiveHelpSettings = {};
LiveHelpSettings.server = '{$server}';
LiveHelpSettings.embedded = true;
LiveHelpSettings.plugin = 'WHMCS';
LiveHelpSettings.name = '{$name}';
LiveHelpSettings.custom = '{$userid}';
LiveHelpSettings.email = '{$email}';
(function(d, $, undefined) { 
	$(window).ready(function() {
		LiveHelpSettings.server = LiveHelpSettings.server.replace(/[a-z][a-z0-9+\-.]*:\/\/|\/livehelp\/*(\/|[a-z0-9\-._~%!$&'()*+,;=:@\/]*(?![a-z0-9\-._~%!$&'()*+,;=:@]))|\/*$/g, '');
		var LiveHelp = document.createElement('script'); LiveHelp.type = 'text/javascript'; LiveHelp.async = true;
		LiveHelp.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://' : 'http://') + LiveHelpSettings.server + '/livehelp/scripts/jquery.livehelp.js';
		var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
		s.parentNode.insertBefore(LiveHelp, s);
	});
})(document, jQuery);
-->
</script>
<!--  END stardevelop.com Live Help Messenger Code - Copyright - NOT PERMITTED TO MODIFY COPYRIGHT LINE / LINK //-->

 

Anyway, anybody shed any light why i should use whmcs code when it appears on the surface at least that the Star Develop coding works just fine?

Edited May 21, 2012 by disgruntled