On 02/24/2012 02:35 PM, kreuzritter2000 wrote: > In my opinion a key for success of 1.) is to NOT promote individual > scenery projects on the official FlightGear places. > > So i suggest to remove all urls that do link to such individual scenery > projects from the FlightGear website, the wiki and even postings on the > flightgear forum. > Especially the latter might be very important.
With this you will reach 2 things: 1) A HUGE discussion and flamewar about censorship and freedom of speech in the forum which will eventually do a huge damage to the project and it's reputation. 2) Legions of heavily pissed users which then simply use Google to find their addon-scenery. 3) Likely new websites and forums coming up for Flightgear, causing a spread and segmentation of the userbase. What you will NOT achieve is that individual scenery designers stop working on their individual sceneries and start working on the global scenery. As Thorsten Renk made very clear to me in the forums, Flightgear works so that everybody works on what they are interested in. Not more and not less. I think, the licensing issue is maybe a bigger point than it's being given credit for. It seems to be very hard to create really pretty scenery which is GPL compatible. I'm not uptodate, but I remember something about e.g. CORINE being not GPL-compatible. The FG scenery-database, however, requires contributions to be GPL-compatible. Now we are back to what people are interested in... If I think about myself personally, if I would go through the hassle of compiling and learning to handle this monster Terragear, I would do it to create the best possible VFR scenery for Western Finland. That would be my interest. For Finland that would very likely include using non-GPL-compatible sources, because e.g. I haven't found any GPL-compatible good resolution elevation grid yet. However, I could obtain permission to use the elevation grid from the national survey service for the project, which would allow for free redistribution but it wouldn't be GPL-compatible. So whatever I would create, couldn't go to the scenery database. It is one thing if you yourself work by a certain system but trying to force people into your system is not only plain wrong - it will inevitably lead to people either leaving the central areas (i.e. forum) or even leaving the project as it is. You cannot publish free software and then try to blackmail people into doing stuff the way you want it. That's stupid and ridiculous. Tervehdys Suomesta / greetings from Finland, Stefan -- Stefan Gofferje | Web: http://stefan.gofferje.net/ (sgofferj/OH-SW) | Projects: http://www.saakeskus.fi/ | Com1: IAX2/k-tanco.louhen-sudet.fi/stefan FG OSBS, Opensuse 12.1, GeForce GTX560, Phenom X4 3200, 8GB RAM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
