I’m quite a fan of the Branded Templates myself and I’m perfectly cool with the “Powered by insided” banner at the bottom of every page, but I can also understand that not everyone likes that. And I also respect the fact that some people might want to remove it… Preferably without risk of a ToS breach.
But section 5.3 doesn’t say anything about inSided doing the modification.
I’ve seen a few forum software options where you can purchase an optional “branding removal” add-on that permits removal of the “powered by” branding either automatically or allows you to flip the switch on and off freely. It is a paid add-on in those cases, but is a way to allow a customer to remove the branding while remaining compliant with the EULA on the basis that purchasing the add-on grants access to a built-in feature which allows the branding to be turned on/off as desired.
This might be worth having as an optional extra for inSided. I would prefer for it to be an optional paid add-on rather than it being default, given that the branding is reasonably unobtrusive and is very commonly used across most platforms - and is definitely not as horrible to the eye as certain other platforms like Khorus!
It’s hopefully a best of both worlds solution to this thread that will make everyone happy too. :)