Gene Buckle wrote: > 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.
Well, trademarking is a "little bit" older than Disney and its lobbyism on politics. In fact questioning legislation (which is your democratic right to do so) is in no way a justification to ignore rights derived from such laws. > > 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. As far as I know they don´t as they use pictures for advertising which they have no usage rights for the same way FG is using trademarked items it has no usage rights for (liveries etc.). Besides they are false advertising and refuse to stick to the GPL. However to the best of my knowledge there is no evidence that they explicitely and illegally changed ownership of items by saying "we did it". Oliver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
