Can I remove the link to phpbb seo from the footer? if there is any fee to pay, how much is that? from where do I remove it?

The licence states that you should provide with at least a link per install to use our mod rewrites. It's not a very big constraint IMO to at least keep it in some kind of copyright page.
We've not set any fee or anything like this to fully get rid of it yet.

And the code is to be find in phpbb_seo_class.php, should be easy to figure out how to bypass the regular linking to only provide with one, but do not forget that the link is a requirement to obtain support here

ok. thanks. we will keep the link there.

Also is it possible to remove even .html etensions and have links like its folder urls? like http://www.anydomain.com/forum/topic-title etc?

Regards
Ali

You can use "/" as suffixes if you like, it's all explained in the install file.

Please note that when doing so, you potentially will change many urls, and will need to update the .htaccess accordingly (which is what the .htaccess generator will do).

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