On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Oliver Fels wrote: > Peter Brown wrote: > >> By this definition FG would cease to exist. >> Legislation does not define values, and commercial trademarks are just >> that, commercial. The purpose of enforcing them is to protect their >> _commercial_ business. It has nothing to do with personal moral, unless >> you direct it in that manner. > > Legislation is built on social values and enforces those. This is the origin > of legislation.
You're delusional. Legislation is built on whomever supplies the most money in order to purchase that legislation. Do you know why copyright was extended in the US last time? Because Mickey Mouse was going to enter into the public domain within a few years and Disney wouldn't allow it to happen. They bought themselves a few legislators and got copyright extended to "protect" the rights holder. > A trademark protects the interests of its owner in various ways. One of them > is to protect from false association harming the reputation of a company, > another is to establisch revenue from licensing it. There are more > Whatever it is in the case of RB we have not the right to question it just to > make it fit into what we think is right or wrong. > Distributing trademarked items is wrong in terms of legal affairs the same way > as violating the GPL is. > Whoever does not care has no right to complain about FPS lack of adherance to > the GPL. Why should they then... Let me set that strawman on fire for you.... FPS is claiming work done by others as THEIRS. This has nothing to do with depicting an aircraft or billboard as it exists in real life. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
