This looks to be more of a moral issue than a legal one.
I'll tell you what I'll do about this. I was born and raised in Christchurch,
where this guy operates from, and I will be visiting the city in a months time.
Perhaps I should pay the guy a visit?
I wanna know where this guy gets off taking all YOUR hard work, and PROFITING
from it, with NOTHING returned to the flightgear community. The legality of his
actions could be debated in a court of law forever, but perhaps a bit of face
time to directly express the sentiments of the flightgear community with the
dude might convince him that there are REAL people who consider his actions
immoral - you guys are more than just names attached to code commits on the
internet, and I think this guy needs to be reminded that without your
efforts his little endeavour would amount to NOTHING.
I'm sure with some 'friendly persuasion' I can convince the guy to give a bit
back. After all if he can help the efforts to improve flightgear, that will
have
a flow-on effect for him. He scratch our back, we scratch his...
Regards,
Chris Wilkinson, YBBN/BNE.
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From: J. Holden <stattosoftw...@yahoo.com>
To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Fri, 12 November, 2010 2:46:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook
Either Curt or someone who has contributed a significant amount of code to the
FlightGear project should look into talking with an open source lawyer.
On copyright grounds, we can only sue to enforce the GPL. Basically, we can
only
make FPS GPL-compliant, which I do not believe they are, but I do know they
have
attempted to become more GPL-compliant (even if it's not technically
GPL-compliant).
There are other grounds we may be able to sue on besides GPL, though, such as
false advertising! Only a lawyer can help us figure out what is going wrong
here. Please look at http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ to see if anyone there can
help us
Yours
John
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