* Jon S. Berndt -- Monday 04 June 2007:
> I don't see anything wrong with holding it back for possible
> inclusion in FlightGear CVS until the carrier features are
> supportable, [...]
No, there wouldn't be anything wrong with it. Except that this
is not the whole story!
Gerard *had* offered it for CVS *knowing* that JSBSim had no
carrier support. It was I who committed it, and I had some work
making it acceptable and applying (often broken) patches. Then
he started bitching about the poor performance of the fgfs/jsbsim
developers, who didn't work fast enough for him. And after
carrier support had still not been implemented after some months(?)
he asked for his aircraft to be removed again from CVS. There
was no "holding back" at all.
There were discussions about it on IRC, and people offered to help
out with a YASim FDM config (with working carrier support at that
time already), but Gerard didn't only refuse to accept the help, he
even wrote on his HP as a copyright restriction that nobody
would be allowed to write a YASim config for his F8![1]
We wouldn't have had to remove the F8 -- after all it was offered
under the GPL -- but it was removed anyway. (Well, not really,
it's still in CVS, in the attic. ;-) This was someone taking revenge
on the FlightGear project because it didn't follow his orders.
Pathetic behavior like this does fortunately not happen often in
the OSS world. But I'd be careful to ever again accept contributions
from unreliable people. And in this light the advertising on the
fgfs list is, well, kind of weird.
m.
[1] Of course, this was a violation of the GPL, and GPL violators
lose the right to use *any* GPL-licensed software, including
Linux and FlightGear. :-}
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