Le 28/08/2011 16:43, Paul Guhl a écrit : > Lets clarify the issues: the modellers asked me to provide secured file > format to prevent model theft and resell for benefit. They are willing > to contribute to FG and don't plan to sell add-ons. Instead they would > like to see their copyright enforced and not abused by others. Hi Paul,
There is also something that has to be noted about GPL licensing, this is the "fire and forget" principle. In other words, a kind of healthy simplicity that prevent some of us about what would be done after our work is released. I do work hours and hours on my models, putting in the best that I can do. It's just for the pleasure to do a nice job and to know that it is a real and useful part of a whole, a real and solid software. Now I don't want to care of the rest. At work I care about the money I'll take for my work. I'll care about sharing part of my knowledge but I work on keeping the advantages my company has by knowing how to solve some problems better than the others. I care if an other company steal our customers while copying our brand and our marketing. I'm very honest in my office work but it's a business and I sell my work. Here, I enjoy giving my work. Giving it as a gift, for free, no matter what happens after. I give an aircraft to every one, I don't care if a few will spoil the gift. That their problem, I just don't want to have something to do else than doing the model and give it. That my pleasure. If I also have to protect it, further than publishing it under GPL, the game change and I will start to care about things which are not pleasant and then I'd prefer to be paid for that. Those property or copyright problems are not welcome in my simple little brain ! That's my conception of one of the coolest thing in GPL. There is only one thing not really pleasant for me that I accept with/for GPL, it's the work I could spend protecting the GPL spitit. My 2 cents, Alexis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
