In choosing YAF for the forum piece of EVE Gate, it was not so much to pick a solution to meet all of our needs but to choose a package that we could build off of. Whether it was Open Source piece or not was not the issue for us, the question was more about the feature set and quality of the code which is comparable to other solutions out there. Is it perfect? No, really there is no such thing, but it is pretty solid and we can now build on top of it and integrate it further into EVE isk Gate.
Now some have worried that by choosing an Open Source solution we have to reveal the source code thus making your accounts and activities in eve online isk Gate vulnerable. This is not the case here as we have purchased a commercial license to YAF so we can properly protect our efforts. That said, we are big fans of Open Source initiatives and if we note issues in YAF that we come up with improvements for we will communicate that back to their project team to benefit the YAF community.
