On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 10:11:27 +0100, Jonathan wrote in message
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> On Friday 09 Apr 2004 6:46 am, Jorge Van Hemelryck wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 04:37:30 +0200
> >
> > Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > ..you wrote it, rip it apart and see if _some_ things _can_ be
> > > GPL'ed.
> >
> > Actually, I didn't write the HUD code. This code already existed
> > when I started working on the project.
> <snip>
> > You might not be familiar with the confidentiality issues I'm
> > talking about. The HUD definition is industrial property, and it's
> > also protected and considered confidential by the government.
> > There's very little I can do about it, maybe it can change when the
> > simulated aircraft are retired from service.
> >
>
> I've been reading this thread with interest. You'll tell me if I'm
> wrong, JvH, but I believe the situation is that the HUD code (i)
> contains information which is proprietary ("industrial property") and
> (ii) attracts an [inter]national security protective marking, i.e. in
> loose journalistic terms it's a military secret. I can see several
> reasons why the latter should be the case if the HUD code tells you
> about the capabilities and performance of an in-service military
> aircraft. What this implies is that the HUD code is very specific to
> a particular aircraft, and hasn't been written so that the SECRET bits
> are parameterised. Yesterday, you wrote '... we can't distribute ...
> even the symbol definitions' which I find intriguing; when I last had
> access to information in this area, the symbology was the subject of
> unclassified NATO definitions. Have you got a foo fighter underground
> somewhere? Seriously, in my experience it is the *performance
> characteristics* of military equipment that are secrets - if the
> aircraft is in service there will be an entry for it in Jane's! Is
> the information which makes the HUD classified so embedded that it
> can't be extracted?
..inline with this, you oughtta be possible to rip out the secret
military parameters, put in new ones from, say, a Taylor Cub,
and then show this to your military client and get your code
approved as licenseable under the GPL.
--
..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.
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