Erh, he just has to take out said code, and his customers will not be the
wiser, since they won't see the message.
He does read the list after all.
As Bertrand said, it's not going to achieve the desired result, not at all.
And it's trying to work around the GPL, by doing something different if you
don't respect someone's wishes on naming/re-branding.
That's an usage restriction, or close enough, that we're starting to split
hairs many times over.
If you want to go along a similar route, why not have the help menu go to
the flightgear.org website, rather than a local copy of the manual ? Then
you can control the content on said webpage and tell people about the bad
folks at FPS.
But doing sneaky stuff that will affect people who might have legitimate
reasons to rename FGFS without breaching the GPL just to counter one
offender seems, well, simply misguided.
Cheers,
Nic
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Martin Spott <martin.sp...@mgras.net>wrote:
> Bertrand Coconnier wrote:
>
> > I am bit taken aback by this commit. Is it really where the Flight
> > Gear community wants to go ?
>
> These people at Flight Pro Sim are deliberately trying to decieve the
> FlightGear devlopment 'crew' (just think of their ridiculous attempt of
> calming the waves by offering this $250 reward, _after_ they got
> 'trapped') as well as their own customers. Therefore I think it's
> acceptable to shed some light onto the story by telling the truth to
> the respective buyers.
>
> > IMHO this commit is pointless and I am concerned that it may be the
> > first step of many towards restriction of use.
>
> As far as I can tell this step is pretty well in compilance with the
> GPLv2, the license that covers most of FlightGear. So where do you spot
> a restriction ?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin.
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