leee wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 Feb 2010, Durk Talsma wrote:
> [snip...]
>>
>> 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
>
> While I agree with the reasoning behind only using aircraft that are
> owned by the FG project for promotional screenshots I simply don't
> understand the sentiments behind what you said above.
>
> If people _want_ to offer their work to the FG project that's fine,
> and I was always happy to do so, but your statement above seems to
> suggest to me that you believe that the FG project should be
> _entitled_ to ownership of any works produced in connection with
^^^^^^^^^
> it.
No, you're proclaiming false assumptions here. The GPL does not deal
with controlling the "ownership", instead it's covering the conditions
of "use" of the respective item.
> While the GPL is liked and approved of by many, myself included, it
> must be recognised that not everybody likes it or wishes to release
> their work under it. Furthermore, it is not a case of the GPL
> being _right_ and everything else being _wrong_: people should be
> allowed to release their work under whatever conditions they
> choose.
Yup, and Durk did not challenge this right in any way. Instead he's
expressing (in this case specifically related to "promotial materials")
that those who expect themselves (or their work) as being considered to
be part of the collaborative project named "FlightGear" are supposed to
stick with this projects common rules. To cite Durk (since you didn't
quote the relevant part of his EMail):
"[...] all promotial materials for FlightGear should only contain
material that is part of the official FlightGear repository."
If you'd adopt the habit of reading precisely what people are writing
on this very list, then we'd have far less discussions like this one.
If people don't like to submit their (art)work to CVS, then they're of
course free to keep it separately, even if we're not happy about this
attitude. But these people should at least be honest about admitting
that they decided to play in their private sandbox instead of
collaborating with the FlightGear project.
Cheers,
Martin.
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