On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:58:40 +0100, Clement wrote in message <col120-w338be1e3c58ca9cef19e38c3...@phx.gbl>:
> > Hi Martin, > > The original author of the model is Emmanuel Baranger ..which answers the chicken-and-egg question any competent judge or lawyer would ask on who decided on the license on this c47/dc3 egg. > The original author of basic XML animation for model is Emmanuel > Baranger The original author of instruments panel is Alexis Laille ..<snip long incomplete list/> > DC-3 is Emmanuel Baranger (but need my intervention ..nope, all you've got and will get, under the GPL and copyright law, is GPL compliance, e.g. with Emmanuel putting whatever he accepts of your work into his own work, as source code, on a public git website. > for it works) ... ... ... The list can be very long :) ..and, it _must_ be _complete_, if you wanna litigate this. If it is not, you will face the wrath of the court for frivolous litigation and or incompetence. > But here it's not the problem of "who is the author model". The > problem is => the minimum politeness is to ask to the PAF team if we > accept to see our contributions committed. ..if you built your own work on somebody elses work under the GPL, you're stuck with the GPL. Exactly like the Linux Kernel team is happily stuck with Linus Benedict Thorvalds' dictatorship. ;o) ..if you don't like Emmanuel anymore, you may tell him what 4-letter things to do, and fork your own _and_ his work, and move on without him, in e.g. your own "gooneybird" repository, under the GPL. ;o) ..if you don't like the GPL, it get's a "little" worse for you, ;oD you'll need to ditch all your GPL work and watch Emmanuel et al carry on using it under the GPL, and you'll need to start all over again from scratch, with your own new thing, under your own favorite license. ..if you do it under the GPLv3 and catch up on FG, I just _might_ take a look. ;o) > I know the GPL give the > possibility to commit without asking anything ...but compliance. It works pretty much like an highway speed limit, "you may drive on my road only on the condition that you drive below my speed limit, otherwise you may not be on my road at all." > but here we speak about "fair practice". ..the fair use doctrine is not part of the GPL, it's part of copyright law. If e.g. Emmanuel takes one of your proprietary copyrighted commercial airliner liveries and wraps it around a condom in a gay porn movie, to mock you, he will be in full compliance with copyright law under the fair use doctrine, exactly because he is mocking you. ;o) > When you decide to download a package from a website and upload it on > your website and GIT the minimum politeness is to ask to the author > of the improvement if he's agreed with this isn't it ? ..nope, the only requirement under copyright law and the GPL licenses, is "publish the source code too, if you publish _anything_", works like "if you drive on my highway, stay below my speed limit." .._nobody_ asks you to "agree with a speed limit", and you may even try to change it if you disagree, "just" get elected into office and pass the law to change it. Or, do it my way. ;o) .."use" or usability, is irrelevant, what's relevant, is who owns what, and, under which license did you publish it. > Thanks you for your attention > > Cheers, > Clément de l'Hamaide (F-JJTH) > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
