Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Erik Hofman
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 18:37 -0600, Jon S. Berndt wrote: To be safest we probably ought to rename the Fokker aircraft models as F100 and F50. I hardly believe that's necessary. I've never heard any complaint about using the Fokker name in any flight simulator. In fact the Fokker project for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Erik Hofman
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 01:57 -0500, Chris O'Neill wrote: I'm no lawyer, and I'm certainly not up on the law around the world, but there's a concept in North American common law that one must take reasonable and prudent steps to avoid liability. With this concept in mind, I respectfully ask

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Vivian Meazza
Erik wrote -Original Message- From: Erik Hofman [mailto:e...@ehofman.com] Sent: 27 February 2011 09:09 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 01:57 -0500, Chris O'Neill wrote: I'm no lawyer, and I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Oliver Fels
J. Holden wrote: To all currently arguing: Consider it is going to be difficult for whoever would sue us to show how we've cost them any financial damage. Likely, someone being aggressive with trademark infringement is probably going simply to ask us to stop distribution of whatever

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Oliver Fels
Erik Hofmann wrote To be honest I don't see any legal difference between creating an accurate livery for a virtual aircraft or publishing a photograph of the real aircraft. Then you have missed various points in legal trademarking ;) Repainting a trademarked item is an explicit reproduction

[Flightgear-devel] Telnet lag?

2011-02-27 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Hi everybody, I'm fooling around with Arduino and FGFS, in order to create a few physical instruments. Since I felt like using an intermediate piece of software that manages data transfers between Arduino and FGFS (Instead of connecting them directly one to the other) and every crazy thing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Citronnier - Alexis Bory
syd adams a écrit : Just a thought , but maybe asking nicely rather than demands and threats might work better ;) On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Jack Mermod jackmer...@gmail.com wrote: I'm planning on contacting Red Bull today. If I get the green light, I better see my livery in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Telnet lag?

2011-02-27 Thread Geoff McLane
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 14:06 +0100, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: Hi everybody, I'm fooling around with Arduino and FGFS, in order to create a few physical instruments. Since I felt like using an intermediate piece of software that manages data transfers between Arduino and FGFS (Instead of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Vivian Meazza
Alexis wrote -Original Message- From: Citronnier - Alexis Bory [mailto:alexis.b...@gmail.com] Sent: 27 February 2011 14:01 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing syd adams a écrit : Just a thought , but maybe asking nicely

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Oliver Fels
Vivian Meazza wrote: Exactly the answer to be expected. Note the association concept. Shouldn't have asked. In the same sense as FlightProSim did not ask to use the IP of others and violate their license? Oliver --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Peter Brown
On Feb 27, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Oliver Fels wrote: Vivian Meazza wrote: Exactly the answer to be expected. Note the association concept. Shouldn't have asked. In the same sense as FlightProSim did not ask to use the IP of others and violate their license? Oliver No, not in your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Telnet lag?

2011-02-27 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: Hi everybody, I'm fooling around with Arduino and FGFS, in order to create a few physical instruments. Very cool Roberto! Don't forget to get yourself a Centipede Shield or two. They're $20 each and give you 64 i/o channels each. Since I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Vivian Meazza wrote: Just a thought , but maybe asking nicely rather than demands and threats might work better ;) On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Jack Mermod jackmer...@gmail.com wrote: I'm planning on contacting Red Bull today. If I get the green light, I better

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Telnet lag?

2011-02-27 Thread ThorstenB
On 27.02.2011 15:48, Geoff McLane wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 14:06 +0100, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: Well, it works ... but the telnet connection is very slow and that slows down every intercation, it makes it far less than realtime I quickly added some 'timing' to my telnet access, through a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Oliver Fels
Am Sonntag, 27. Februar 2011, um 16:23:47 schrieb Peter Brown: On Feb 27, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Oliver Fels wrote: No, not in your twisted logic. FG is not creating income based upon others work. FG is representing the environment and aircraft created in a realistic manner. A proper analogy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Telnet lag?

2011-02-27 Thread Geoff McLane
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 16:41 +0100, ThorstenB wrote: fgfs . --telnet=foo,bar,100,foo,,bar Hi Thorsten, Absolute genius ;=)) Should have looked at the source myself before belching... Now have :- OVER LAN: WIN32 - Ubuntu 39 accesses 0.835 secs, 0.0214 secs per access 39 accesses

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Peter Brown
On Feb 27, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Oliver Fels wrote: Am Sonntag, 27. Februar 2011, um 16:23:47 schrieb Peter Brown: On Feb 27, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Oliver Fels wrote: No, not in your twisted logic. FG is not creating income based upon others work. FG is representing the environment and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Citronnier - Alexis Bory
Gene Buckle a écrit : On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Vivian Meazza wrote: Just a thought , but maybe asking nicely rather than demands and threats might work better ;) On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Jack Mermod jackmer...@gmail.com wrote: I'm planning on contacting Red Bull

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread J. Holden
It has been very frustrating to watch this community repeatedly trip over legal issues. This has finally become a great enough source of frustration to me where all I can say is good luck in the future and enjoy the scenery (whenever it comes out). Yours John

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Oliver Fels
Peter Brown wrote: By this definition FG would cease to exist. Legislation does not define values, and commercial trademarks are just that, commercial. The purpose of enforcing them is to protect their _commercial_ business. It has nothing to do with personal moral, unless you direct it in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, It has been very frustrating to watch this community repeatedly trip over legal issues. This has finally become a great enough source of frustration to me where all I can say is good luck in the future and enjoy the scenery (whenever it comes out). Yours John Really? I find this

[Flightgear-devel] ..speeding up telnet _may_ also require speeding up the fdm, was: Telnet lag?

2011-02-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:41:56 +0100, ThorstenB wrote in message 4d6a70c4.2070...@gmail.com: On 27.02.2011 15:48, Geoff McLane wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 14:06 +0100, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: Well, it works ... but the telnet connection is very slow and that slows down every intercation,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Oliver Fels
Heiko Schulz wrote: Hi, It has been very frustrating to watch this community repeatedly trip over legal issues. This has finally become a great enough source of frustration to me where all I can say is good luck in the future and enjoy the scenery (whenever it comes out). Yours

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Heiko Schulz
I believe what John is saying is that it is frustrating to see how people just step over legal issues without caring. If one day we have to move away the debris then it will be But how should we have known Oliver Well, looking at other sims I'm not sure about. X-Plane,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread J. Holden
I find this interesting- wasn't it you (beside Martin) telling us that Google Earth can't be used anymore for scenery models due to legal issues? Yes. The Google Maps/Google Earth license is not compatible with the GPL. If you are interested in this OpenStreetMap has a good discussion of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, That is one of the rare instances where we have been able, as a community, to figure out what we can or can't do legally and apply the reasoning consistently. Exactly that's what I want to know in this case. There's a general we should avoid litigation vibe here, but part of avoiding

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..speeding up telnet _may_ also require speeding up the fdm, was: Telnet lag?

2011-02-27 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 27 February 2011 10:05:21 Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..depending on what data you drop into or ask for from the fdm, speeding up telnet _may_ also make you speed up the fdm so it _can_ properly solve the problems you feed it: --model-hz=n Run the FDM this rate (iterations per second)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread J. Holden
Well, until now you didn't say much about in this topic here. But as I can see, you are the one in the whole Project who does understand much more of laws and legal issues than anyone others here. I cannot tell if this is sarcasm but in defense I have done a lot of reading to try and figure

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, Another problem is contributors come from all over the world so reading the Lanham Act won't necessarily help us if the angered corporation and data contributors are German. That's why we need a community effort to figure out what to tell Jack when he's presenting his next model to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread John Holden
This is the code section I've found so far, 1114(1)(a) is the most relevant: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode15/usc_sec_15_1114000-.html I don't know much about this but it does appear the confusion, mistake, or deception part at the end is the important part. I'll have to

[Flightgear-devel] ..let's make fair use of the fair use clauses. ; o), was: Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:05:58 -0600, Curtis wrote in message AANLkTi=XWzb=20e8kWWHb=cn7z90qa696eq0tp7qp...@mail.gmail.com: We are trying to find a reasonable way forward, not forget about anything. No one wants to remove existing content from the FlightGear project, even though some of that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Reagan Thomas
On 2/27/2011 12:06 PM, John Holden wrote: This is the code section I've found so far, 1114(1)(a) is the most relevant: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode15/usc_sec_15_1114000-.html I don't know much about this but it does appear the confusion, mistake, or deception part at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Vivian Meazza
John Holden wrote This is the code section I've found so far, 1114(1)(a) is the most relevant: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode15/usc_sec_15_1114 000-.html I don't know much about this but it does appear the confusion, mistake, or deception part at the end is the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:51:54 +0100 (CET), Melchior wrote in message 11311.7445.1298757114543.javamail.r...@warsbl214.highway.telekom.at: * Jon S. Berndt jonsber...@comcast.net: [...] but contact the various trademark/logo owners and very carefully inform them of the project and ask them for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, J. Holden wrote: It has been very frustrating to watch this community repeatedly trip over legal issues. This has finally become a great enough source of frustration to me where all I can say is good luck in the future and enjoy the scenery (whenever it comes out).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Oliver Fels wrote: Peter Brown wrote: By this definition FG would cease to exist. Legislation does not define values, and commercial trademarks are just that, commercial. The purpose of enforcing them is to protect their _commercial_ business. It has nothing to do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread ThorstenB
On 27.02.2011 21:18, Gene Buckle wrote: I for one, do NOT welcome our new Vichy FlightGear Overlords. Zey hav vays of makingink you comply. Until you mouth-breathing back-biters understand the concept of no harm, no foul, I don't want to have a thing to do with you. *« Bravo, vous avez gagné 1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Livery proposals (was: Logos and licensing)

2011-02-27 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hey Erik! Erik wrote: It might also be a good time to make installing new liveries a lot easier. Please let me know whenever something is undertaken on this part. I'd like to make sur we'll end up with something in cooperation with http://liveries.flightgear.org which I maintain

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Telnet lag?

2011-02-27 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
a look at the sources shows that a fixed polling interval is used for telnet - default is 5Hz. So it cannot process more than 5 commands per second. That's why it's slow. There's better methods of implementing socket communication instead of polling, but I haven't looked into the module and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Telnet lag?

2011-02-27 Thread George Patterson
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Roberto Inzerillo rob...@gmx.net wrote: a look at the sources shows that a fixed polling interval is used for telnet - default is 5Hz. So it cannot process more than 5 commands per second. That's why it's slow. There's better methods of implementing socket

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread syd adams
too many emails to read but if i understand Tim , I happen to agree that there's no reason for every aircraft to be inserted into the fgdata repository . Why not keep them separate from the main FG project and leave the onus on the content creators ? There the one's bringing the undesired

[Flightgear-devel] c172j

2011-02-27 Thread syd adams
Hi guys , I modelled a c172j , the aircraft i trained in , and got the fdm working pretty accurately (except for slipstream effect) , but noticed that the yasim piston engine burned about 11 gallons per hour , about 3 gallons an hour more than the real one does full rich. Would it be possible for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172j

2011-02-27 Thread Gary Neely
Syd, I had to fix fuel usage for the Goose to drop fuel usage to about 65% of YASim's guestimate. I generally replace the default nasal fuel system with my own version these days, and as part of that, at least in the Goose, I included a fuel-scalar that reduced the fuel-consumed amount.