On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 13:28 -0600, Curtis Olson wrote:
> On 1/18/07, Daniel Pekelharing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>         Hi Curt,
>         
>         Thanks for the reply,
>         I take it then that it's OK to acquire the scenery through a
>         commercial
>         OSS vendor..
> 
> We've taken publicly available data and processed it into FlightGear
> scenery, so we don't add or remove rights to that original data.  In
> the case where users contribute models and buildings and landmarks, I
> believe that is all done via the gpl. 
> 
> So this might be too legally vague for a commercial OSS vendor, but
> there's nothing from within the FlightGear project that would prevent
> someone from redistributing our scenery.

I understand... I guess that was probably the problem they had in the
first place... (the "vagueness").. and as such they won't want to take
any "chances"..

It's worth a try though :-)

- Daniel Pekelharing


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