> As for the topic brought up here, I sense a bit of sentimentalism > clouding the technical judgment of some. (...) > In a positive creative development structure you leave the contributors > their freedom. > > "Contribute your planes!" rather than "Come to Gitorious, ask for our > permission to get your repository, work under our supervision! Work, > work, my busy bees, and make us planes for our big master-repository!"
Freedom naturally finds its limits where it impacts on the freedom of others - you seem to miss this point. You always have the choice to make your development available in whatever form and license you like. You can create your own hangar, present your work there, are free to use whatever license you like, are free to offer whatever level of user support you like, you can even sell your addons ... You can also offer your work as part of 'The Flightgear Project'. Once you decide to do so, it is no longer your freedom to do what you want with your work - it is under the control of 'The Flightgear Project', you may have to compromise, you can't choose your license,.... But you get something in return for giving up that freedom - you get to use the official Flightgear infrastructure (you aircraft will be for download on the official page, others test compatibility, other developers may take care of your work when you're not around, others will feel responsible to provide support if they can,...). You seem to entertain the idea of a free lunch - get the goodies which being part of the Flightgear project has to offer, but keeping the freedom to do what you want. That may be a positive creative development structure from your personal point of view, but certainly not for everyone else who is then supposed to provide infrastructure for you. This has nothing to do with what technical possibilities GIT offers, or what GIT is about - it's just common sense that there has to be a balance between give and take whenever people interact and work together. So, if you like your complete freedom, you can't be part of a collaborative project. It's as simple as that, being part of a bigger project always implies giving up that complete freedom. Cheers, * Thorsten (R) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
