While we are on the topic, I'd like to take a different perspective.
There are a number of source data files (eg: national SRTM-1 data)
that is provided under Creative Commons with license terms very similar
as GPL, however it isn't GPL, but it would appear to have the same aims
as everything below. However at the end of the day it is not GPL, and so
can not be used. Creative Commons seems to be very popular for "content"
as oppose to "code" with organisations that don't do code.
So my question then is, what path is there to incorporate CC content
in scenery that must be GPL???
cheers
S.
On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 09:32 +0100, James Turner wrote:
> On 5 Sep 2012, at 09:06, Stuart Buchanan wrote:
>
> > On a practical note I'd also point out that some FG development has
> > been paid for through the commercial use of FG. In the past I've been
> > paid to develop simulations for my local museum of flight, the results
> > of which have been fed back into FG.
>
> +1
>
> > Changing the license won't actually make any difference to FPS et al.
> > They appear still to be selling v1.9.1, and given their advertising
> > methods, I can see no reason why they would put any effort into
> > updating their package.
>
> +1
>
> >
> > As this comes up on a monthly basis, perhaps we need an FAQ explaining
> > why changing the license is a bad idea, has no support from the core
> > developers, isn't practical, and won't make any difference anyway?
>
> +1
>
> :)
>
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