Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-28 Thread Pete Morgan
If its for sale in the Uk Then I will quite willingly buy the package. I have already made some lines of enquiries as a common muppet. and have got some strategic replies. Whats the issue?? in UK law is it sales of goods act or copyright ? pete Tim Moore wrote: > On 09/26/2009 02:55 AM, syd a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-28 Thread Tim Moore
On 09/26/2009 02:55 AM, syd adams wrote: > Wish I had know I'd be working for Mr Charlie Taylor for free ! > Makes me hesitate to continue maintaining my aircraft as GPL. Whatever Charlie Taylor has done in terms of copyright violations and outright lying, I don't think we can know that there is a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:33:37 +0200, Durk wrote in message <200909260733.37841.d.tal...@xs4all.nl>: > On Friday 25 September 2009 08:20:40 pm Martin Spott wrote: > > "Alan Teeder" wrote: > > > How about naming and shaming all of these profiteers on the main > > > website, warning newcomers that th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-25 Thread Durk Talsma
On Friday 25 September 2009 08:20:40 pm Martin Spott wrote: > "Alan Teeder" wrote: > > How about naming and shaming all of these profiteers on the main website, > > warning newcomers that they can get an up to date version for free (and > > contribute should they wish). > > This idea is to my likin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-25 Thread syd adams
Wish I had know I'd be working for Mr Charlie Taylor for free ! Makes me hesitate to continue maintaining my aircraft as GPL. Wonder if royalties are in order ;) Cheers -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Confe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-25 Thread Fabian Grodek
Interesting, if you look at the very bottom of their home page ( www.flightprosim.com) you can click on Developers; this brings you to a page where you can join the "Flight Pro Sim" developers !! I did not try to join yet, but would be interesting to see WHO are those developers... Fabian On Fr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-25 Thread Martin Spott
"Alan Teeder" wrote: > How about naming and shaming all of these profiteers on the main website, > warning newcomers that they can get an up to date version for free (and > contribute should they wish). This idea is to my liking :-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selec

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-25 Thread Alan Teeder
list Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal? Hi, I've just "created a ticket" on the www.flightprosim.com website. In other words, I have tried to contact the webmaster/seller. I asked him if the package is released under GNU GPL. Also I k

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-25 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi, I've just "created a ticket" on the www.flightprosim.com website. In other words, I have tried to contact the webmaster/seller. I asked him if the package is released under GNU GPL. Also I kindly asked him to remove the images or place clear sources. If the situation doesn't impro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-22 Thread Oliver Schroeder
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 14:21:25 Stefan Seifert wrote: > Since they are advertising the multi player feature: how about periodically > broadcasting a message via MP servers that users are using free software > called FlightGear available at flightgear.org? This would make sense if there we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-22 Thread James Sleeman
Same outfit as was discussed at end of last year. November 2008. Subject "Another person selling FlightGear under dubious pretenses" Search out that mailing list discussion thread. On 23/09/09 00:04, Jon S. Berndt wrote: > This looks much more problematic: > > http://www.flightprosim.com/disc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-22 Thread Heiko Schulz
Von: Gijs de Rooy > Betreff: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal? > An: "FlightGear Development list" > Datum: Dienstag, 22. September 2009, 15:04 > > > > > > Hi > >   > > Just to dig up the old discussion. T

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-22 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi Just to dig up the old discussion. That was about this site: http://flight-aviator.com/ Which is "copyrighted" by http://www.FlightProSim.com and uses the same layout and text. We sucessfully contacted the webmaster of FPS last time (the images were removed), so I think we should do that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-22 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 14:04:16 Jon S. Berndt wrote: > This looks much more problematic: > > http://www.flightprosim.com/disclaimer/ "copyrighted under United States and other World Wide Patents" A little confusion of totally different laws... But interestingly from the front page: "There

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
The do state "This is a commercial adaption of the world renown flight Gear project. Further information available in our Developers Area" in the shopping area: http://www.flightprosim.com/#order Jon S. Berndt wrote: > This looks much more problematic: > > http://www.flightprosim.com/disclaim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-22 Thread Jon S. Berndt
This looks much more problematic: http://www.flightprosim.com/disclaimer/ JB > -Original Message- > From: Jon S. Berndt [mailto:jonsber...@comcast.net] > Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:03 AM > To: 'FlightGear developers discussions' > Subject: Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Il

[Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-22 Thread Jon S. Berndt
I've been alerted to this web site: http://www.flightprosim.com/ We all know by now that under certain conditions one can sell open source software packages such as FlightGear. However, it seems to me that this web site is problematic in several ways, - copyrighted screen captures may be used -