Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future repository for non-GPL aircraft

2011-04-21 Thread Vivian Meazza
Ryan M wrote Something I've always thought about is an official aircraft repository that contained non-GPL2 aircraft- straight from the authors, of course. There are many aircraft for FlightGear that are not GPL-licensed (some of them very well-developed, like the Tu-154b and the MD-81),

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future repository for non-GPL aircraft

2011-04-21 Thread Scott
Just thinking out load,what would be nice, is it can be integrated into FG, so that aircraft are checked against the remote hangar and downloaded/updated if not under the local aircraft directory, or out of date (a pre-generated MD5 checksum should suffice) Users could configure the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future repository for non-GPL aircraft

2011-04-21 Thread syd adams
Not sure if its possible to do easily , but it would be nicer to be able to link an aircraft from a personal hangar directly to FG's aircraft download page... On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Scott scott.hamil...@popplanet.biz wrote:  Just thinking out load,what would be nice, is it can be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future repository for non-GPL aircraft

2011-04-21 Thread K.Aoki
Not sure if its possible to do easily , but it would be nicer to be able to link an aircraft from a personal hangar directly to FG's aircraft download page... If they adopted Creative Commons License, can we mention our repository / static web site ? Kiyohito AOKI

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future repository for non-GPL aircraft

2011-04-21 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 18:43:11 Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: Ryan M tpbspamm...@gmail.com writes: Something I've always thought about is an official aircraft repository that contained non-GPL2 aircraft- straight from the authors, of course. There are many aircraft for FlightGear that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future repository for non-GPL aircraft

2011-04-21 Thread George Patterson
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Ron Jensen w...@jentronics.com wrote: On Wednesday 20 April 2011 18:43:11 Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: Ryan M tpbspamm...@gmail.com writes: Something I've always thought about is an official aircraft repository that contained non-GPL2 aircraft- straight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future repository for non-GPL aircraft

2011-04-21 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, I could imagine more something like a portal, (like avsim.com, x-plane.org) where you have all Downloads available, sorted in licencs, types, ratings. This would allow to search and find easily all aircraft, no need to search through the whole web. This would also allow to have multiple

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future repository for non-GPL aircraft

2011-04-21 Thread Citronnier - Alexis Bory
Heiko Schulz a écrit : Hi, I could imagine more something like a portal, (like avsim.com, x-plane.org) where you have all Downloads available, sorted in licencs, types, ratings. This would allow to search and find easily all aircraft, no need to search through the whole web. It would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future repository for non-GPL aircraft

2011-04-21 Thread Gary Neely
Just a thought: The Flightgear wiki currently has a small page devoted to links to personal hangars. It is rather obscure, being a simple link embedded in text and buried in the Using Flightgear-Additional Aircraft page, but it has greater potential. Perhaps this link could be more prominently

[Flightgear-devel] Future repository for non-GPL aircraft

2011-04-20 Thread Ryan M
Something I've always thought about is an official aircraft repository that contained non-GPL2 aircraft- straight from the authors, of course. There are many aircraft for FlightGear that are not GPL-licensed (some of them very well-developed, like the Tu-154b and the MD-81), and I think it'd be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future repository for non-GPL aircraft

2011-04-20 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Ryan M tpbspamm...@gmail.com writes: Something I've always thought about is an official aircraft repository that contained non-GPL2 aircraft- straight from the authors, of course. There are many aircraft for FlightGear that are not GPL-licensed (some of them very well-developed, like the