> From: "Curtis L. Olson" > > 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.
Exactly, so long as the developer agrees of course. And in this particular case developers need to be aware that they cannot transfer rights to any existing submodels, textures or other components that might be borrowed from the currently GPL'd work. You can use them, of course. You just have to keep them GPL. > 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. > Could be? lol! Yeah that word is a hot button on an open source mail list. Kind of like saying "choice" at a Catholic bible group. Oh and before this comment triggers yet another flaming diversion: I can say these things because I am what you might call a recovering Catholic. Geez...now I'm in trouble! > 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. > If no one steps up then I might take a stab at it next year. It does look like a great project and would encourage anyone interested in 3D modeling to give it a go. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
