Jim Wilson writes: > I was going to say that those aren't private carriers, but a couple > years back it seems there was a news article about Air France > planning to go semi-private. Still Southwest is the first private > non-national livery and I think that might make a > difference...don't know.
You're thinking about something that's very specific to the U.S. As far as I understand, the U.S. government is not allowed to copyright (and, perhaps, trademark?) any IP -- that's why people are allowed to copy and distribute the FAA database and the Instrument Approach Procedure plates for free, and why we can get such excellent free geodata for the U.S. when building FlightGear scenery. In the rest of the world, government and government-owned organizations have no such restriction, so Transport Canada (for example) could quite readily sue you for violating their copyright or trademark, as could Air France or anyone else. In fact, the British Crown asserts a perpetual copyright over the Book of Common Prayer, dating back many centuries. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
