Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:38:39 -0500, Curtis wrote in message
This could go two possible directions. If someone wants to volunteer to
do this, it could be contributed to FlightGear for everyone to enjoy.
The person requesting this might also be able to pay some smallish
amount (yet to be determined) to have this done, but if he pays for it,
he wants to "own" the result for his own use, and it couldn't be
contributed to flightgear..
.."he who pays" can _both_ own his paid-for SR20 and have us distribute
it for him under the GPL.
<sigh> I'm not sure if it's worth the bother to reply here </sigh>
But "he who pays" for something to be developed can do whatever he wants
with it. In this case if he pays for the model's development, he
doesn't want to give it away to everyone for free. That's his right and
his choice to make.
If someone is developing something on their own, they can dual, triple,
quadruple license it however they want, but if they want to do an
open-source + commercial license, they are going to have to find someone
to buy it commercially, and if it's already available as open-source,
why should someone pay for it? And there may be answers to that
retorical question, but in this specific case, if there's already an
SR20 model in FlightGear, why would this guy want to pay for it?
Feel free to contact me off-line if you like. If more than one persons
responds, I guess I need to reserve the right to make some hard
decisions. :-)
..one of them could be spend more time explaining copyright law
enforcement and the GPL to him, he either misses RMS' copyright
law enforcement scheme behind the GPL, or he pretends to, like
the SCO Group in Lindon, Utah.
None of this last paragraph seems to make any sense in the context of
this discussion. I'm not sure how useful it is to launch into a
GPL/RMS/Groklaw/SCO rant every time the word "commercial" passes across
your computer screen, especially when your comments don't seem to make
any logical sense or have any connection to the topic at hand. Sorry if
that sounded harsh, but I could be having a stressful day here or
something like that. :-)
Apparently no one is interested in doing a Cirrus model for FlightGear
at this time, which is fine, I was just asking, and just presenting a
couple different options for getting it done.
Regards,
Curt.
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Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt
HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org
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