On 02/26/2012 02:21 AM, HB-GRAL wrote: > No, I am not over-doing this one I think. The charts are "republished" > this way, and charts could not be "transformed" to a GPL source by a > personal-referencing-and-copyright-project by Syd. I am referencing the > copyright and restriction of NAV CANADA (in case!), and his statement > about using (unknown) wms sources for scenery projects ...
This seems to be pretty tough lawyer stuff, so I think, unless one here is a lawyer with focus on copyright law, we won't get a solution, no matter how much we discuss. I would like to suggest that somebody from the FG core (scenery) team contacts the Free Software Foundation. They have specialized lawyers and they do exactly this (among other stuff) - provide legal advice to Open Source projects. My suggestion would be, that somebody from the core (scenery) project requests advice from the FSF and following that, a precise guide or "code of conduct" for scenery developer will be written. That should remove anything that's unclear and give a good deal of safety and security for (would-be) scenery designers as well as for the project itself. E.g. I'm using official airport charts of the Finnish Aviation Authority (public domain) and aerial images of the National Land Survey Authority as referencing material for my EFTP project and to my understanding and according to information I received from the National Land Survey by phone, only the redistribution of the material itself would be a problem but not of anything I produce while only using the material as a reference. However, as written elsewhere, this might very well differ from country to country. If you think practically, this also makes some kind of sense, because I doubt heavily that the current apt.dat was created by volunteers, walking through every airport and measuring all data themselves. I am fairly certain, that in the creation of the current apt.dat, some official material was used as reference. 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
