> I would have happily continued to > maintain/upgrade them , and I,m hoping this change might make things > easier ... but if Im now being told that my work can be changed > without any notice to me , that i have no say over my own > contributions, then I wont waste any more time here.
I think that needs a distinction between what's true in principle and in practice. In principle it's true that you signed over your work, so anyone can change it without notice. The rational is that if anyone gets angry, he can't leave and take his work with him and stall the whole project in the course. So in the case that you would decide to leave Flightgear in anger, it would probably occur that your work would be modified over your objection if that's needed to keep it running. In practice, there is common courtesy to authors. I haven't witnessed many situations in which an aircraft was modified without consulting the author, when this happened it turned out to be an accident rather than intention. I have witnessed the opposite, i.e. that a change to an aircraft made by someone else was not committed because the original author objected. Most of us are adult people, and most of the time we are able to act like civilized people, i.e. we can work out things in a reasonable way without invoking the law and waving license around. There are some rules for emergency cases necessary though. So, I'm pretty sure no one will go ahead and modify your stuff without asking you first as long as you're around and participating. Hasn't ever happened to me (and the temptation must have been there...). Cheers, * Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
