phpFreeChat requires backlink or it breaks - is there a way around this?

I don't mean to be shady, I'm just trying to make everything look official and white-label and I will be modifying the crud out've the thing, it's my 'learning php' project, but I'm stumped on changing the required linkback here in index.php, everything I do breaks it:



Any help would be appreciated! Don't mean to be breaking any rules asking this if I am!

Could you not just use CSS to hide the link?
<a style="display:none;"

There will be a function somewhere in the script that checks the link.
You need to find that function or prevent it being called.

I checked phpfreechat V1.6 and that line isnt anywhere in index.php

just remove
from the index file
don't remove the entire layer or <script>