On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:03:51 +0200, Pep wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> >> > ..you fly FG in IVAO using Wintendo??? How do these > >> >> > communicate? > >> >> > >> >> It would be nice to fly FG in IVAO (this is the whole point of > >> >> this conversation), whatever platform. I personally prefer > >> >> Linux, but as FG is multiplatform, then IVAO would turn > >> >> multiplatform... > >> > > >> > ..yeah, but never mind my surprise, the important question > >> > on my line above, was: "How do these communicate?" > >> > > >> > >> I think I'm missing something from your question. How do who > >> communicate? FG and IVAO? > > > > ..yup, the programs, they must communicate somehow. Your wrote your > > own code to do this? > > I don't fly FG in IVAO. No one does. If I did, I wouldn't have > started all this :) ..ah. ;o) Then we can look forward to you doing this. ;o) > If you are asking how flight simulators in > general communicate with IVAO, there are client applications that do > this: IvAp (for MSFS), Squawkbox (for MSFS, Fly!), X-IvAp (for > X-Plane), etc. It has to be that way because of these simulators not > being open source. ..nor GPL. My understanding is this should happen server side, or you're tangling with allowed and not work-arounds under the GPL, and you will be distributing or conveying client apps under some license. We all want firm walls around our copyrights here. > > ..some aren't, agreed, and some combinations _are_ possible, but > > let's first have IVAO weed out it's litigation traps, e.g. this > > gem, the last line of §2 in > > http://www.ivao.aero/rulregs/va-r-r.asp , doesn't quite fly with > > me, obviously IVAO and its Executive Commitee _is_ subject to > > copyright law and the GPL, if they do anything mentioned in either > > of these. > > This refers only to Virtual Airline registration. However, I'm not > law expert, cannot add anything else to this respect; perhaps the > database administrator could explain it. ..ok, I would want IVAO's Executive Commitee explaining this part of their policy, as it stands now in http://www.ivao.aero/rulregs/va-r-r.asp, "§2: ... IVAO will not be responsible of copyright violations.", it makes no such "database limitation" to IVAO's statement, which is really a claim in a pre-emptive litigation defense. ..this language rather suggest IVAO wants to not be held responsible for its potential use of pirated code. Your Executive Commitee will probably want to clarify this language to demonstrate it's respect for Copyright Law. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
