Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pro Flight Simulator disclaimer, accurate?

2011-01-15 Thread Steve M Bibayoff
Hello, Hopefully this gets through, I'm not subscribed on the Devel (or any) fg list. And sorry for breaking threading, I read this this post from the sf ml archive page. I received an ad for %$ Flight Simulator ( http://www.%$flightsimulator.com/ (1)) and looked at it and found it eerily

[Flightgear-devel] Pro Flight Simulator disclaimer, accurate?

2011-01-14 Thread Chris Wilkinson
http://www.proflightsimulator.com/fg-help.htm Any comments into the accuracy of this statement? Regards, Chris Wilkinson, YBBN/BNE. -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pro Flight Simulator disclaimer, accurate?

2011-01-14 Thread Victhor
Think about it. ;) http://www.proflightsimulator.com/fg-help.htm Any comments into the accuracy of this statement? Regards, Chris Wilkinson, YBBN/BNE. -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pro Flight Simulator disclaimer, accurate?

2011-01-14 Thread Erik Hofman
On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 02:08 -0800, Chris Wilkinson wrote: http://www.proflightsimulator.com/fg-help.htm Any comments into the accuracy of this statement? It started out fine with a few minor nitpicks until I reached: To say it is simply FlightGear would be inaccurate and illegal. Ehm?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pro Flight Simulator disclaimer, accurate?

2011-01-14 Thread Jari Häkkinen
I have no time for detailed legalities of the message but one should note regarding GPL (at least v3 and probably v2, maybe it is time for fg to go v3?) 1) It is legal to fork a GPL project at any time if some conditions are met. In simple terms the forked project must provide their

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pro Flight Simulator disclaimer, accurate?

2011-01-14 Thread Chris Baines
I love the contradictory passages: - ProFlightSimulator is an open source stand alone Flight Simulator. - Customer support is only an email away (Open source products do not offer any support) They say open source projects don’t offer support (despite FlightGear offering community support

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pro Flight Simulator disclaimer, accurate?

2011-01-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:00:02 +, Chris wrote in message 1295020802.2363.13.camel@chris-desktop: I love the contradictory passages: - ProFlightSimulator is an open source stand alone Flight Simulator. - Customer support is only an email away (Open source products do not offer any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pro Flight Simulator disclaimer, accurate?

2011-01-14 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Erik wrote: Looking at their so called todo list ...which is not much more than a sum-up of FlightGear features (like the VATSIM support that FlightGear has these days). Oh, to all: please do not provide direct links to these people's websites. Every single hit increases their pagerank