I'm (still) against binary runtime modules for FlightGear. They are an invitation for circumventing the GPL, locking in users, and potentially harm cross-platformness. I find the prospect of a vendor offering a new device with closed source libraries for stock FlightGear worrying, and even more so if there's only a Windows DLL, but none for OSX and all the Unices/Linux. (Not that I'd want to run any secret binary blobs on my clean machine.)
We offer more possibilities than X-plane and MSFS and all the others put together -- by letting people look at/modify/redistribute our source code. For free. That's very generous, if you ask me. That linking non-GPL modules would be illegal, anyway, doesn't make the situation any better. Unless you can offer us a *lot* of money, time and personnel for filing lawsuits. Otherwise the GPL protection is rather weak and only theoretical. We shouldn't encourage corporate entities to rip us off. m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
