?John, I fully agree. I despair that everyone seems to be saying this guy's operation is fully legal, almost like it's more convenient to assume that than to fight it. I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that the GPL wording on the allowable scope of commercial activity is very clear, and this guy appears to be going well beyond it, or at least, there seems to be a very good case for questioning it.
So now you have identified a body of lawyers who can help at no cost. (This is fantastic btw). The question is whether anyone here really wants to test the issue are whether they are happy to carry on being pissed off about it and not even take the opportunity to get an expert opinion. Frankly, I don't think we're fulfilling our responsibility to potential users of FlightGear if we don't do everything in OUR power to protect them from whatever FlightSimPro represents, and yes, it does reflect badly on the community, particularly if our collective response is to bury our heads in the sand and allow it to carry on unchallenged These adverts on Facebook are becoming more and more prolific, so this is an issue that is not really just a sideline. This is a advertising campaign with potentially a massive reach. Mally PS. It's just struck me that even his advert headline is misleading "NEW Flight Simulator" (my emphasis). PPS. I will check (if I can) if any code attributable to me is in the source. I think not, I was just debugging for someone else who had the code checked out iirc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Holden" <stattosoftw...@yahoo.com> To: <flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 4:28 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook > > For the love of... > > Whatever your opinion on the legality of what they are doing, this is > indeed a problem and reflects negatively on the community. > > Ignoring it will not make it go away. We need to know what we can do. > > Please, please, someone with a copyright interest in the software please > contact the lawyers at http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ > > I am not saying this for fun. > > Cheers > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture > Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using > Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end > client virtualization framework. Read more! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1153 / Virus Database: 424/3251 - Release Date: 11/11/10 > ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1153 / Virus Database: 424/3251 - Release Date: 11/11/10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
