Curtis Olson wrote:
> No one wants to remove existing content from the FlightGear project, even
> though some of that same content would not be allowed to be submitted by
> some authors as it stand right now. Because it was submitted by other
> authors or was submitted in the past we are ok with it.
Curt, by repeating a wrong statement as often as you already did in
this context, you don't make it a true statement.
People _are_ concerned about some of the content in our Base Package,
but, as I already wrote via private EMail (17th February), I consider
removing controversial content from the Base Package as being much more
ressouce-intensive as preventing new, controversial content to creep
in. Because everyone's busy, as usual, sorting things out might take a
while.
> Think of the implications of doing nothing without written permission. We
> would literally do nothing in that case except for a few very rare cases
> where someone did manage to get written permission -- and we would need to
> remove most of the work that we have done to date. But those arguing for a
> more pristine policy, are unwilling to actually present a specific policy --
> I believe because they realize to be logically consistent would require them
> to advocate removal of just about all FlightGear content.
I'm one of those who think that a written policy doesn't help in this
context. Not because I'm generally against policies but, instead,
because past experience has shown that this very FlightGear project
doesn't have a good track record about dealing with people who are
persistently ignorant about policies.
Yes, I'm convinced that the FlightGear project is affected by 'social'
issues. I also sense that identifying this sort of social issues might
have been your most apparent blind spot over the past years ....
> I know that a few out there will still assert that we need some permission
> from some companies to model some things. PLEASE!!! Tell me where you draw
> the line and how you draw the line; and if possible use LOGIC!!!
Might be quite easy: At least void those companies who are _known_ for
being sensitive about using their trademarked content. Examples have
been presented on this very list on the past one or two weeks.
Cheers,
Martin.
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