Curtis Olson wrote: > Referencing the attached email from Gerard Robin who has a number of > his aircraft included in FlightGear CVS. > Should we leave these aircraft in CVS as unmaintained entities that > will accumulate cruftiness and work less and less well as FlightGear > development goes forward? I say yes, until such time as they don't work well enough (or at all), at which point, they would go. No point taking out good aircraft that are presently working just because they might stop working at some point in the future. Cross that bridge when you come to it.
I'd bet there are other aircraft in CVS which are not actively maintained. > Do we find someone to monitor updates on Gerard's web page and try to > keep these aircraft up to date in CVS ourselves (assuming his license > terms allow that?) Looking at Gerard's page, some of the models are GPL, and some are Creative Commons. I expect the Creative Commons ones would not be compatible (but of course any GPL version thereof already in CVS is - but not any subsequent CC updates to it). There are plenty of other authors out there who do not, for one reason and another, publish their aircraft into the CVS, they are on random websites all over the internet. Perhaps the time has come for a centralised, licence (and cost) agnostic, database of aircaft (and scenery), not just those officially in CVS, but also those on author sites etc. Like the freshmeat of flightgear. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
