Mally, After a phone call I have emailed Richard Cook at Coch Media the makers of the High in the Sky distribution of the Getmapping scenery. He is going to get back to me with a definitive answer on the EULA for this product and has said he will speak to their partner in the product Getmapping as part of this.
>From what you say there may be restrictions as to how I can legally view the scenery having paid for a copy of it. This is something I hadn't considered, so I will wait to hear back. We did discuss that there were several products that would allow you to view the data on the CDs without using the included software and that it would be prudent to check the eula. Until then it is probably worth clarifying a couple of points that I think you might have misunderstood: You are probably correct in terms of the semantics of "sell this data" however my intention when I used it was to mean "sell a CD with images licensed for domestic, social and pleasure purposes and not for commercial use" (back of the box). It was my understanding that basic copyright concepts would be understood by other readers of the message. I anticipated that users of a linux developers mailing list would already be familiar with some of these issues and that a reasonably informal use of language is normal in these discussions. Publicly available was not a reference to GetMapping images at all. In fact it was a reference to other possible sources. Flightgear is an international community, most of whom I imagine have a lesser interest in UK scenery, but might also want to view photo scenery in Flightgear. An example of use of the phrase publicly available can be found here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3399809.stm which to be clear I am not assuming is copyright free etc etc. "There seems to be a widespread misbelief that anything available on the internet is fair game" I have had a quick look through recent postings on all the Flight/Terragear mailing lists and cannot find any reference to interest in the distribution of copyrighted material, scenery or otherwise. Nevertheless thank-you for the reminder. I am however slightly concerned that someone reading your email might think that there has been discussion of this, something you should perhaps make clear. I hope the above has answered your concerns and would be keen to know what others think on this. Regards Mat Churchill _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
