Curt wrote: > I don't know about Europe, but around here civil lawyers are not a free > government provided entitlement, and they are really expensive! > (Probably even more expensive than ball room dancing instructors.) > So our options are > (a) some real lawyer volunteers to help us out or (b) some flightgear > supporter (or group of flightgear supporters) pool together to purchase > the services of a real lawyer.
I'm currently //studying// law - I cannot practice it or give legal advice yet - so I can't help. I will say, there are a lot of lawyers who do pro bono (free) work. Unfortunately, most of this is geared at people who cannot afford a lawyer - a lot of pro bono work is family law and assisted housing/land use sort of stuff, not a free flight simulator. There may be technology lawyers willing to review the GPL for us, especially if we're up front and specific about what we want to achieve. It seems to me based on reading this discussion that the GPL seems unclear; if Curt or someone sat down with a lawyer (for free) and asked the lawyer to research several GPL-related questions, including figuring out what rights the creator of a GPL work has, whether or not Durk's improvement to FlightGear is compatible, and if we have any case against people who take our product and redistribute it as-is for a fee, I think this would be helpful. Cheers John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
