Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > * Jim Wilson -- Sunday 17 March 2002 19:09: > > Interesting note, the top item on the list, "Racer" is not GPL or anything > > close to opensource ( see http://www.racer.nl/legal.htm ). It also uses the > > fmod lib for sound...which is imho overkill for a race sim...and it is not > > open either (in fact you can't even get the source). Guess I'm not all that > > familiar with Suse. Is that typical for their distribution? > > http://www.linuxracer.racesim.net/whatis.html > > m.
Yes, but Ruud (the author) clearly states otherwise and has consistently fought attempts by some to redefine his stated intent. Personally, I don't think Ruud realizes what he's doing. He's got some pipe dream that someone is going to come along and offer him big bucks for his engine. I've seen the code and wouldn't consider it that marketable. But who knows. As it stands I think he would certainly gain by licensing under GPL. Right now anyone could read it and steal his ideas, if not the code, for commercial purpose and he would have no real recourse. In the end though I strongly believe it is the author's right to license her or his code any way they like, and I find it annoying when GPL champions try to pressure programmers to do otherwise. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
