Hans-Georg Wunder wrote: > Now there three ways to go to get the panel GPL compliant:
There still seems to be a misunderstanding. The issue here is not a minor technicality regarging open source license compatibility. It is that this package got caught using artwork to which the author does not own the copyright! This is not "GPL incompliance", this is called "copyright infringement". It is possible that the little icons were the only Microsoft artwork at issue, but there is no way we can know that unless we know exactly how the artwork in the 707 package was generated. Especially for us, because the mechanism behing the GPL is based on the idea of copyright protection, it is extremely important that we remain "clean" of perceived problems. > When I go to the aircarft museum and take some cockpit photos. Can > I use them for panel painting (like the 737 panel) ?? Generally yes. There is a long tradition (much longer than computers or aircraft have been around) of people creating and distributed simulated representations of objects using the real thing as a reference. That doesn't mean that you *can't* be asked to stop, of course, but that it seems unlikely that you will. Note, however, that many museums have a "no cameras" policy (which has nothing to do with copyright law, although it is intended to protect their exhibits' uniqueness). So you may need to be sneaky when you take the photos. :) > - Do we have a place to store aircrafts with uncompliant aircrafts > ??? I have no objection to making separate distributions of aircraft with minor license incompatibilities. But under no circumstances should the FlightGear project distribute or link to content with known copyright problems, sorry. Andy _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
