Of course it should not be included in the package. Legal 101 :-)
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 9:48 am, Steve Hosgood wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: > >> Hi Stewart, >> >> Stewart Andreason wrote: >> >> >>> I thought I was done, but you know how it goes. I thought of several >>> ideas for >>> improvements, and managed to write the code to do it. >>> >> >> >> How would you define "non-profit commercial use". Does your intention >> meet the demands of the GPLv2 ? >> >> > > Ignoring GPL issues for a moment (important though they may be), the > entire concept of the Star Trek® Danube-Class® Landing Craft® is > copyright© by Paramount Pictures® until about the year 2845 (assuming > the US government manage to keep extending the terms as they have for > the last 50 or so years). > > Is it safe for FG to include such a likely target for Paramount > Pictures'® Copyright© Lawyers® (*)? > It looks like a great model (from the screenshots) and probably would > be nice eye candy and publicity for the FG project, but it could be a > ticking bomb for us. I'm rather uneasy about it all.... > > Steve > > (*) Yes, I'm overdoing the ®'s and ©'s for effect :-) > Have you ever read the blurb on offical ST merchandise? It's plastered > with them - and "tm" too (which I don't seem to have a symbol for, > otherwise I'd have abused that too!). www.GlobalBoiling.com for daily images about hurricanes, globalwarming and the melting poles. www.ElectricQuakes.com daily solar and earthquake images. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
