Dear Richard Branston, I'm sending this letter as an individual and am representing FlightGear, which is an Open Source Flight Simulator released under the "General Public Licence" GPL ie free and open source.
I am speaking on behalf of the "FlightGear team", comprising a bunch of people of all various talents and skills that make the virtual simulated flying fun and free for all. Indeed open skies. The n'th goal is towards making it as "real world" as possible. As your pilots, FlightGear has VOR, ILS, v1, v3, Vr, PMI, RVR, CAT3c etc and also mad stuff happening with metar's. The "system" is online, multilayer and is constantly moving forward at a steady pace as it has been for the last ten+ years. Its probably one of the oldest, successful and moving modern open source simulator. However, there are a few things that would make it more realistic, which is where you Richard, and your airline come in as an idea. == Legal Problem == We have a legal problem in that some of our aircraft designers and pilots want to use your logo's on the "modeled Aircraft" and in scenery. We understand that we are not allowed to do this, as respect as its your trademark, which is why its not included anywhere. So we end up making "look alike" versions.. sorry for the tongue in cheek. So what we'd ask is that you can give us "some rights/permissions" to use your logo/trademark/livery within the FlightGear sim. This does not necessarily means we will use it, or indeed want to have a problem of "having" to include. Its just we don't want to be sued for using it. == Virgin FlightGear CD== To check your livery is included, you'd actually need to see it's within a sim. As FlightGear is under the GPL license, anyone can knock off copies of FlightGear. This means you Richard, can for example give a "free" copy branded CD to passengers who want a "Virgin Pilot CD". The "Virgin Pilot CD", could have a working copy branded with your aircraft, but would need some resource to create. ==Problem From Above== The problem we'd have if you gave away a CD to everyone is that all of them would be online at one. Eg 2000+ virgin players.. For that we'd need some online MP servers, which would be dead easy to accomodate within your IT infrastructure. If your going to ask "is this a virtual airline?", then its not. Your need to be the "real virtual online airline". If the ideas tickles you then I would be glad to hear back. Kind Regards Peter Morgan for FlightGear.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
