On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 21:06:29 +0200, Oliver Fels <oliver.f...@gmx.net> wrote: > xsaint wrote: > >> We should also warn ppl that Flightgear being repackaged and sold by some >> individuals and we encourage them to download the sim from Flightgear >> instead of buying those craps.... > > Note that by discouraging repackaging in general you will create a > situation > in which we shoot ourselves in the foot. > GPL explicitely grants the right to repackage a product and get a > compensation > for it and in general it is an appreciatable action if somebody packs in
> FlightGear, adds sophisticated documentation and support plus maybe some > more > for the sake of usability and sells the whole thing for whatever he feels > is > an appropriate compensation satisfying his business model. In fact > FlightGear > might benefit from that. One of the success factors of Linux is based on > the > fact that eg. SUSE exactly did this. > > The problem we are facing with guys like FSP is not *that* they repackaged > the > whole thing but *how* they did it and *how* they advertise it. > > Transporting the message "We don't like (commercial) repackaging at all" > is a > message which imho should not be transported- > > My few cts. > > Oliver Personally, for my part it's not about the fact that they make money on other man's work. But it's the fact that the whole Pro Flight Simulator is just big lies at all. Starting from authors name, the so said branch with improvements they made to fgfs, the bug fixes they made, the 1000 daily copies they sell daily and the PFS developers that are so said working on the fgfs code and sceneries... The way how they hidden the GPL project behind it and steal stuff on the way to promote the PFS packaging... In fact, there's not much things that they are telling true, except it's all about cool stuff. A commercial "sponsor" can be really interesting for an open source project. And i think that the open source world just need it. That can bring lot's of benefits such as additional (or even printed manuals), dedicated developing or working on some stuff which isn't developed yet. Or just improve the whole stuff with a return to the mother project! It's normal you are paid for you work you do during your business hours. It's even noted in the big book. But PFS just doesn't do all what they say to do so. And that's what make me mad about them. They just abuse our world. And letting them do so is just approving that. Which isn't better either. My mind about that :P Regards, David (aka itchi) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
