Here's a question for all you amateur lawyers and GPL experts out there. Let's say that someone wants to create a proprietary aircraft within the FlightGear system, and then distribute a larger "system" that includes FlightGear + that aircraft.
In my view, the FlightGear GPL license covers our source code, but not content created with or used by that code (except for things like the base package which is explicitely licensed as GPL.) Is it possible that someone could lay claim to any newly created proprietary "content" (3d models, artwork, panels, etc.) by way of the GPL? Even if FlightGear is happy to allow people to create proprietary aircraft, could someone upstream in plib or zlib or openal land somehow file a complaint? To me this is analogous to Microsoft demanding all documents created and owned by a company just because they created and edited them with Microsoft Word. I just don't see that ever happening. But I wonder what others think about this issue from a legal point of view. Thanks, Curt. -- Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
