Hi, On Wednesday 24 February 2010 04:47:58 pm Vivian Meazza wrote: > Martin Spott wrote > > > Peter Brown wrote: > > > It's the Fouga Magister, from GRTux's site. > > > > I see, so it's his distinct, private adventure, not part of The > > FlightGear Project. Right ? > > And the copyright belongs to Gerard I assume. We really can't use someone > else's pictures of a model which doesn't form part of FG, and which has a > different licence (Creative Commons). Surely we have enough pictures of > models which do form part of our project, and for which we do have > copyright? > > If we don't I'm sure we can soon rustle some up. > > Vivian
This might not be known to everybody, but the defacto policy is that all promotial materials for FlightGear should only contain material that is part of the official FlightGear repository. In essence, this means that when it's in CVS, It's okay. The beauty of having one repository (be it centralized, as with current CVS, or decentalized, should we switch to something like GIT in the future) is that we can all work collaboratively towards building the best FlightSimulator ever. As long as the submitted material adheres to the GPL licence, there is no principle limit as to what can go into CVS, with a few exceptions. These being 1) world scenery. The world scenery is currently maintained as a separate project, and contributions for this can be submitted there. 2) Liveries. There's been some discussion about adding multiple liveries of various aircraft to CVS, and it's currently been left up to the individual aircraft developers decide what to include. Because the possible number of varieties in livery are seemingly endless, there has been some concern that excessive amounts of liveries may bring CVS to it's knees. For this reason, a separate (more or less officially sanctified) livery repository has been set up. For these reasons, in my original batch of promotional screen shots (http://www.xs4all.nl/~dtalsma/fgfs2.0/), I've been very careful to use only aircraft that are included in CVS. I realize that this might not have been widely known, therefore, I would just take this opportunity to remind everybody. I nevertheless appreciate the offer of the additional screen shots. As follows from this, I have to add that I'm not too excited about all the invidual hangars, and scenery repository sites (such as "unitedfreeworld") that I'm seeing spring to life right now. I do realize that these sites serve their purpose as a temporary storage for material that needs further refinement, and also accept the fact that some materials simply cannot be added to cvs due to the fact that original materials were incompatible with the GPL, but apart from these cases, I do believe that it should be encouraged that eligible materials go into CVS. Cheers, Durk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
