I've been doing research into copyrights and am shocked to see there is no (C) (years)-2010 FlightGear anywhere in FGRun or in the main flight simulation program.
However, it appears looking through a sample of the source code the code is indeed (C) (year) by the authors who wrote it. This makes sense, considering the contributors to the project hold the copyright, unless the contributors agree to assign their copyright to an entity (FlightGear). I don't think this has happened, but it should. By assigning the copyright to FlightGear instead of the contributor who contributed a part of the work, this helps FlightGear move forward to help defend the software legally - and the original developer still has the right to use that part of the code they contributed elsewhere, as long as you don't grant anyone an exclusive license to use the code. We should also revise the fgrun and fgfs components to include (C) 2001-2010 FlightGear in visible areas. I'd add something to the menus - probably the file menu - in fgfs called "About" with the following text, if the copyright is unified: -- This software (C) 2001-2010 FlightGear Licensed under the GPLv2. Contribute to FlightGear! Visit our website at http://www.flightgear.org/ for more information. -- On fgrun, and if there are any installation programs we currently use, there should be a similar copyright notice. If I've completely missed where these notices are, please let me know, but this is important to help protect our software. Cheers John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
