Hi Melchior, Licensing of the data is an awkward issue as copyrights aren't easy to assign for model and image files in the same way as they are for ascii source files.
I can't blanket assume a license for all the files as I getting permission from all the authors will be next to impossible. The non commercial clause is there due to some of the files, most will actually be OK to copy and use of commercial use but to be rather safe than sorry the README is conservative. How I'd very much support the community rally around and creating a new data repository with everything under a much more permissive license. I'm not a modeler or content creator though. Robert. On 10/4/07, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > * Robert Osfield -- Thursday 04 October 2007: > > As David mentioned there are the initial configuration files now > > checked into OpenSceneGraph-Data SVN. > > the license of the files in OpenSceneGraph-Data is very restrictive, > which is rather unusual for an F/OSS project. One can't even derive > his own version from one of the files and distribute it with an > (L)GPL project, due to the non-"commericial" clause. Could this, > please, be reconsidered? At least reverse the license logic to > make everything (L)GPL, *except* this and that. > > FlightGear aircraft developers extracted the fire & smoke part of > cessnafire.osg and modified it, but we can't distribute anything of > that with FlightGear, as GPL explicitly allows commercial use. Is > there another, *free* source with *.osg samples demonstrating > features like particles, etc., which one can actually use? > > m. > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
