[Flightgear-devel] Global Coordinate System

2010-11-11 Thread Paul Guhl
Hello! I'm a hobby programmer and work on a flight simulation project as well and would like to ask probably a trivial question: Lets the global origin of the coordinate system be at 0deg lat and 0deg lon. While moving an aircraft within 100km off the global origin, the movement and camera

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook

2010-11-11 Thread Mally
?Arnt ..url to your facebook page? Would be the useful one url I meant. ;o) Effectively, once I'm logged in, the URL to my personal facebook page is still just http://www.facebook.com/ . Unless you're logged in as me, you're not going to see what I see on the page anyway, and there's no way

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global Coordinate System

2010-11-11 Thread Martin Spott
Paul Guhl wrote: My question is: how the local/global coordinates are managed in FlightGear? Did you already read this one ? http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/Scenery/CoordinateSystem/CoordinateSystem.html Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global Coordinate System

2010-11-11 Thread Tim Moore
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Paul Guhl ad...@simtechnologies.de wrote: Hello! I'm a hobby programmer and work on a flight simulation project as well and would like to ask probably a trivial question: Lets the global origin of the coordinate system be at 0deg lat and 0deg lon. While

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook

2010-11-11 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thursday 11 November 2010 03:36:02 Mally wrote: ?Arnt ..url to your facebook page? Would be the useful one url I meant. ;o) Effectively, once I'm logged in, the URL to my personal facebook page is still just http://www.facebook.com/ . Unless you're logged in as me, you're not going

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook

2010-11-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:25:14 +0100, Citronnier wrote in message 4cdc0ada.6020...@gmail.com: Ron Jensen a écrit : On Thursday 11 November 2010 03:36:02 Mally wrote: ?Arnt ..url to your facebook page? Would be the useful one url I meant. ;o) Effectively, once I'm logged in, the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook

2010-11-11 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi all! XIII wrote: And why do they use an A-6E screenshot I have made me-my-own-self ? Nah, I just sent to Facebook an inquiry for copyright infringement :-) Content on the FlightGear wiki also falls under the GNU GPL license (as stated at the bottom of this page), so does this A-6E

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook

2010-11-11 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
I am not sure whether the content *generated* by a GPL-licensed program (such as FlightGear generating screenshots) would have to be licensed under the GPL as well. To be honest, I doubt it, because a lot of GPL-licensed tools are used to generate copyrighted content, even including

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Local weather: Clouds redrawn

2010-11-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:58:08 +0100, fiers...@zonnet.nl wrote in message 4cdb9400.1090...@zonnet.nl: I limited the frame rate to 30, used a smaller window. No difference. ..any change when you play with X Window frame rates and X desktop size? _They_ are still drawn at your full X Window

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Local weather: Clouds redrawn

2010-11-11 Thread Tim Moore
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:58:08 +0100, fiers...@zonnet.nl wrote in message 4cdb9400.1090...@zonnet.nl: I limited the frame rate to 30, used a smaller window. No difference. ..any change when you play with X Window frame rates

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook

2010-11-11 Thread Csaba Halász
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Robin van Steenbergen stone...@stoneynet.nl wrote: I am not sure whether the content *generated* by a GPL-licensed program (such as FlightGear generating screenshots) would have to be licensed under the GPL as well. To be honest, I doubt it, because a lot of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook

2010-11-11 Thread Citronnier - Alexis Bory
Csaba Halász a écrit : On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Robin van Steenbergen stone...@stoneynet.nl wrote: I am not sure whether the content *generated* by a GPL-licensed program (such as FlightGear generating screenshots) would have to be licensed under the GPL as well. To be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook

2010-11-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:50:03 +0100, Robin wrote in message 4cdc1ebb.4050...@stoneynet.nl: I am not sure whether the content *generated* by a GPL-licensed program (such as FlightGear generating screenshots) would have to be licensed under the GPL as well. ..it's the When I push the button

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Local weather: Clouds redrawn

2010-11-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:26:04 +0100, Tim wrote in message aanlktikrympzsrjy8ontu7vq8lv-o2tjr+rqqax4o...@mail.gmail.com: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:58:08 +0100, fiers...@zonnet.nl wrote in message 4cdb9400.1090...@zonnet.nl:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook

2010-11-11 Thread J. Holden
Either Curt or someone who has contributed a significant amount of code to the FlightGear project should look into talking with an open source lawyer. On copyright grounds, we can only sue to enforce the GPL. Basically, we can only make FPS GPL-compliant, which I do not believe they are, but I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook

2010-11-11 Thread Chris Wilkinson
This looks to be more of a moral issue than a legal one. I'll tell you what I'll do about this. I was born and raised in Christchurch, where this guy operates from, and I will be visiting the city in a months time. Perhaps I should pay the guy a visit? I wanna know where this guy gets off