Is there a legal expert on the list? :-)
Without having a license in front of me I can only speculate. I can posit that
GPL software does not need to exclusively deal with GPL compliant data, or else
plenty of existing GPL software would not be allowed to open non-GPL
fileformats. Thats the tricky one - fgfs is GPL, but if the license for the GIS
data used to create scenery is not GPL, but allows rendering into derivative
format (ie fg scenery), then is it OK for fgfs to be able to open derivatives
(scenery) of the original data? The scenery is after all derived, not original.
Regards,
Chris Wilkinson
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From: Scott Hamilton <scott.hamil...@popplanet.biz>
To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Fri, 10 December, 2010 11:07:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport Water Clipping
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 12:27 +0000, Martin Spott wrote:
Stuart Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Chris Wilkinson
wrote: >> I will double check the licence attached to the data I have, but I'm
>> confident it is free to use and distribute so long as any subsequent end-use
>> is of personal or private non-profit nature. > > Please double-check. That
second clause would mean that it is not GPL compatible, > and can't be added
to
the Landcover DB. Yup. BTW, Chris, is there a name to the source of your data
?
If you're in Australia, the source probably might already be known. Cheers,
Martin.
This may be a dumb question, (I've read the GPL license, but I'm certainly not
an expert in it), but is it possible that the input data is not GPL itself, but
that it could allow GPL scenery output (given that it goes through a process)?
cheers
S.
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