> From: Andy Ross > > Hans-Georg Wunder wrote: > > In the package there is a GPL-license. > > If this is enough, then everything is OK regarding the panel. > > Unfortunately, due to clear evidence of (minor, admittedly) copyright > violation, this is not enough. The issue isn't license compatibility, > it is copyright ownership. John Carty cannot legally grant a license > to artwork he does not own. We need to be 100% sure that the people > granting the license (GPL or otherwise) own the copyright. > > > I wrote John a mail and told him, what Iam going to do, > > but I got no answer. > > At this point, I think a statement from Mr. Carty is really the only > thing that will be acceptable. It's possible he didn't understand the > rules, and generated some of the artwork via screenshots of other > aircraft in MSFS. That's a showstopper for us. > > Obviously Innis's model and FDM configuration are fine. But my strong > suggestion is not to commit the panel until we can trace the history > of every image in it. >
Andy's view on this is the same as my own. If OSS developers learned a lesson from SCO it is this. Although it is hard to see now, some day FGFS or a derivative is likely to be a real threat to whatever is left of the future MSFS desktop market and the last thing we want to do is give some bunch of copyright lawyers a toehold. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
