I believe this person was well within their rights up until they claimed
copyright over the entire work. Even if they have copyright on accompanying
software they wrote to work with it, I believe they are required to license it
under the GPL if they distribute it with FG.

I'm pretty sure claiming copyright over it and stating (falsely) that it's
prohibited to copy, modify, or distribute it is a violation.

IF they removed that one bit from the page and they include an offer with the
software (not the ad) to provide the sources, they'd be compliant.

I'm not a lawyer though.

Email them and ask them to provide the source code and a copy of the license
it's released under. (They can charge a reasonable fee for processing and
materials for that, but they can't refuse to do it and pointing you to the
flightgear site isn't enough. THEY have to provide them.)

Bob

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> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:11:43 -0500
> From: Curtis Olson <curtol...@gmail.com>
> Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear on ebay
> 
> 
> Here's a slightly different wrinkle (maybe) on this whole selling 
> copies of FlightGear under dubious premises.
> 
> In this case FlightGear is prominently displayed in the ebay ad, but 
> later they claim:
> 
> Copyright
> This item is copyrighted. Any reproduction, duplication or resale of 
> any kind is strictly prohibited. Software included is either 
> released under GNU or contains our protected IP. Copyright ? 2009 MT 
> Software Solutions. All rights reserved.
> 
> Is this a problem?  Here's the link so you can see it all in context:
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Flight-Gear-Simulator-2009-for-Microsoft-
>
Windows-Vista_W0QQitemZ180388068783QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_PC_Video_Games_Video_Games_JS?hash=item29fff77daf
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Curt.
> -- 
> Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/


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