On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 01:14:23 +0100, Georg wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 3. The "Trademark violations could be a problem" quest > Peter Tishma has a name like poison in all the flightsim-community. ...as has Darl McBride and other Microsoft shills at the SCO Group of Lindon, Utah. Do you and your FLY!II guys know of http://Groklaw.net/ ? > Even an Austrian/German Flightmagazin for MSFS wrote some articles > about him in the past, they had a very bad opinion about what he is > doing. Even TRI gave the Cessna and other aircraft some "general" > names (Cessna -> Flyhawk ...) in FLY!II, the reason might be these > trademark protection. But all the freeware-designers for FLY!, X-Plane > and MSFS are undisturbed by this theoretical question and I have not > heard about any problem until now. ...over at Groklaw, we're really more amused than worried about such Nigerian 419 style piracy in American courts. The best part is we're gonna get the GPL set firmly as case law first on IBM and then on Microsoft funding. Do I hear "tremble damages"? ;-) ..I would worry a fair bit more about "other" free licensed projects, as they may be targetted by scamsters "buying up and enforcing IP rights" like SCO and Peter Tishma purports and purported to. ..so, we do need to keep our eyes open to avoid running into the next Microsoft funded ambushes in courts. Is as simple as reading license etc terms _first_, and then _carefully_ consider your theoretical options, they _are_ pretty real to Lindows in the Benelux area. ;-) http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200403251307269 -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
