Re: [Flightgear-devel] And again: VATSIM and FG?

2007-09-22 Thread Robert Black
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 00:50, Holger Wirtz wrote: Hi *, On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:52:55AM -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: On 9/17/07, Ralf Gerlich wrote: Holger Wirtz wrote: But they asked me if I want to write something like a VATSIM-proxy for FG to get arround the GPL problem.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] And again: VATSIM and FG?

2007-09-17 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi! I have worked previously on a KDE port of the ProController client (now replaced by ASRC) and maybe I'm a bit bitter about my experience at that time. Therefore I'm not trying to give answers here, but just ask some - possibly suggestive ;-) - questions. Holger Wirtz wrote: But they asked

Re: [Flightgear-devel] And again: VATSIM and FG?

2007-09-17 Thread Curtis Olson
On 9/17/07, Ralf Gerlich wrote: Holger Wirtz wrote: But they asked me if I want to write something like a VATSIM-proxy for FG to get arround the GPL problem. This proxy has to be closed-source. Hrm, so they are interested in getting FlightGear users into the boat, but they are not willing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] And again: VATSIM and FG?

2007-09-17 Thread John Wojnaroski
Jon Stockill wrote: Curtis Olson wrote: 2. In terms of who does the interfacing work, us or them. I think that boils down to who benefits. I suspect that the FlightGear users will have a bigger benefit from getting access to the vatsim world than visa versa. Based on what I've seen on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] And again: VATSIM and FG?

2007-09-17 Thread leee
On Monday 17 September 2007 17:30, Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi, Jon Stockill wrote: This needs to take into account the platforms that flightgear is used on. If it's closed source then ideally whoever produces the app is going to need the capability to build (at the very minimum) linux, mac,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] And again: VATSIM and FG?

2007-09-17 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis Olson wrote: 2. In terms of who does the interfacing work, us or them. I think that boils down to who benefits. I suspect that the FlightGear users will have a bigger benefit from getting access to the vatsim world than visa versa. Based on what I've seen on the multiplayer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] And again: VATSIM and FG?

2007-09-17 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Jon Stockill wrote: This needs to take into account the platforms that flightgear is used on. If it's closed source then ideally whoever produces the app is going to need the capability to build (at the very minimum) linux, mac, and windows binaries, since handing the source over to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] And again: VATSIM and FG?

2007-09-17 Thread Holger Wirtz
Hi *, On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:52:55AM -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: On 9/17/07, Ralf Gerlich wrote: Holger Wirtz wrote: But they asked me if I want to write something like a VATSIM-proxy for FG to get arround the GPL problem. This proxy has to be closed-source. Hrm, so they are