Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..IP and litigation risks, was: AH-1 Merge Request

2011-02-18 Thread Oliver Fels
Curs Olsen wrote: So why aren't we *removing* all our existing uses of the redbull logo ... or at least the ones that I can find in 2 seconds? None of the people who are saying Jack can't submit his helicopter with a redbull livery are saying anything about the 2 aircraft and several

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..IP and litigation risks, was: AH-1 Merge Request

2011-02-18 Thread Oliver Fels
Myself wasn't aware of that we have other models with the RD-logo as well. I'm not sure if Oliver, the starter of this debate is. I pretty much am since Jack pointed me to those *sigh* (never noticed it before) and yes, I did say that we have to care about them to Jack. There is no reason

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..IP and litigation risks, was: AH-1 Merge Request

2011-02-18 Thread Oliver Fels
Gene Buckle wrote: Regardless, nothing relating to open source use of logos on aircraft models in flight simulator. It does not matter whether open source projects, private persons or commercial enterprises. In fact in certain areas (eg. file sharing) private persons are more frequently

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-18 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Jon S. Berndt wrote: If in doubt – in fact, even if not in doubt – it’s good to ask. Here’s an actual data point. snip I agree with Jon on this - ideally we should be pro-active about asking for permission, even if we don't like the answer. We could send out

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-commitlogs] FlightGear Base Package branch,

2011-02-18 Thread Martin Spott
Flightgear-commitlogs wrote: The branch, releases/2.2.0 has been updated - Log - commit df42a907df04bee9f42445c36be1cfe207c2f68b Author: Frederic Bouvier Date: Thu Feb 17 23:19:03 2011 +0100 Fix issue #246

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-18 Thread Jon S. Berndt
From: Stuart Buchanan [mailto:*.*.*] I agree with Jon on this - ideally we should be pro-active about asking for permission, even if we don't like the answer. ... Jon - could you post the disclaimer text you eventually used? -Stuart With JSBSim, our situation is a little different,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-18 Thread Oliver Fels
Stuart wrote: snip I agree with Jon on this - ideally we should be pro-active about asking for permission, even if we don't like the answer. Very good points mentioned. Especially the point that this will increase FGs appearance on some radars. However lots of people are nowadays using

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-18 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Stuart Buchanan wrote: I agree with Jon on this - ideally we should be pro-active about asking for permission, even if we don't like the answer. We could send out a series of emails to all the trademark holders we can identify, starting with the airlines as the most

[Flightgear-devel] Alice flying in Wonderland (TM)

2011-02-18 Thread joacher
Hi there! After having followed the trademark discussion silently, I start to feel like Alice in Trademark-Wonderland. Most companies, and RedBull for sure, invest a lot of money for TV and print commercials. So WTF should the Flightgear Project do commercials for them FOR FREE? RedBull

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft directory renaming question

2011-02-18 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi, Long ago I (with a lot of help) created a flightgear aircraft called Malolo1 and committed it to CVS at the time. Malolo1 was a prototype of a marinized (salt water proof) flying wing UAV ... approximately 7' wing span. With the help of a few kind souls I got a 3d model in place and a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AH-1 Merge Request

2011-02-18 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Jack Mermod wrote: Hi,        The Red Bull livery has been removed from this release. Download: http://jackmermod.bplaced.net/Files/cobra21511.zip Hi Jack, I had a look at committing this, replacing the existing aircraft in git, but there seem to be some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AH-1 Merge Request

2011-02-18 Thread Csaba Halász
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Stuart Buchanan stuar...@gmail.com wrote: Warning: Could not find plugin to read objects from file /home/stuart/FlightGear/fgdata/Aircraft/AH-1/Models/Cockpit/pilot1.png. Warning: Could not find plugin to read objects from file

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AH-1 Merge Request

2011-02-18 Thread Jack Mermod
Hi, As many of the textures were originally photos, they were edited in .jpg format and sent to me like that. I made the careless mistake of simply changing the extension from jpg to png. I will convert these the proper way in photoshop, and commit it to the AH-1's repository, which