On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:41:15 +0100, Erik wrote in message <4b46efab.4020...@ehofman.com>:
> J. Holden wrote: > > LeeE: > > > > I appreciate your comments, but in that case, why is FlightGear > > licensed under the GPL at all if we're not willing to enforce it? ..you don't enforce the GPL like decades of dandy EULA contract litigation, on GPL violations, you simply grab your toys and go home and have your lawyer make the cops enforce copyright law on the perp's ass. > > The GPL is designed to be as open as possible, but still giving > > rights to the people who hold the copyright on the product! > > Well that was my point, I could use my own code any way I want to > (even in closed source projects) without any problems if the > copyright remains by me. Handing over the copyright to some entity > prevents that. ...and it also creates defeatable targets for expensive decades of frivolous dandy EULA style contract litigation harassment. Now, we're like a guerilla of innocent gorillas, if you ever wondered what the G means. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
