On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:46:49 +0000, leee wrote in message <201002251146.49352.l...@spatial.plus.com>:
> misleading responses (for describing an aircraft as just 'art' work > whilst ignoring the FDM, animation and scripting development work ..the aircraft geometries, liveries, the FDM's, the scripts are all artwork under copyright law and license-able under both the GPL and proprietary private sandbox licenses. ..whether or not these private sandbox artworks can be "used" legally with FG and other GPL programs, depends on the precise wording of these proprietary private sandbox licenses, some, like e.g. Sun's CDDL a few years back, are designed to set up legal traps to sabotage GPL project, by putting developers in danger of litigation "for software piracy." ..the average cost of such litigation is US $3 million when Microsoft has no case and settles to avoid getting slapped by the courts for frivolous harassment. See Groklaw.net. -- ..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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
