Curtis Olson wrote: > Now they give away a demo system to a couple different potential > customers and say, "Hey what do you think." They haven't rolled out > an actual product, they haven't had any actual sales. No customer has > paid any money for the copy of the system. > > Has the GPL been violated?
Probably, if they have distributed it to people outside of their organisation, even for "demo" purposes, money or lack of isn't of importance, so the only question is: Is their work a derivative, or are they merely aggregating it into a distribution of softwares. If their work depends on the presence of flightgear, I think that's really a derivative. If flightgear can be removed and the system still used (eg their system can export models that flightgear can use, oh and here is flightgear on the same CD to save you downloading it) then could just be aggregation, but even still linking to it (in terms of library) at all causes an issue. Murky water lies therein. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
