Considering what he has been doing lately, he may end up accepting this. :) BTW, IMO you should write the letter more formally. > 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
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