Re: [Flightgear-devel] gpl scenery

2012-02-26 Thread HB-GRAL
Hi Syd Am 26.02.12 02:43, schrieb syd adams: My source of info is here. http://www.navcanada.ca/NavCanada.asp?Language=enContent=ContentDefinitionFiles%5CPublications%5CAeronauticalInfoProducts%5CCanadianAirportCharts%5Cdefault.xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gpl scenery

2012-02-26 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 26.02.12 01:41, schrieb Stefan Gofferje: I am fairly certain, that in the creation of the current apt.dat, some official material was used as reference. Indeed, the official material was the public DAFIF database, unfortunately not available anymore. Cheers, Yves

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gpl scenery

2012-02-26 Thread Olaf Flebbe
Hi, First of all: I am not a lawyer, but nevertheless I did counsel a patent lawyer in the past about GPL and its implications. As Yves already wrote: The WMS data seems not to be a problem. IMHO we may have a problem with the Navcanada data, since it contains the Notice All rights reserved

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gpl scenery

2012-02-26 Thread syd adams
Thanks for the input , they reflect my own feeling ... I'm more comfortable using the WMS data. I did contact NAV CANADA long go about using the aerodrome charts.The response seemed to be that they would happy to discuss licencing fees , but i think i was misunderstood . That ended the subject for

[Flightgear-devel] gpl scenery

2012-02-25 Thread syd adams
This discussion about scenery reminded me of a few things , one of them is me not understanding what Martin is working towards...I probably should pay closer attention .Sorry Martin. I've been very interested in seeing an improvement in scenery , but i think covering it up with shaders is the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gpl scenery

2012-02-25 Thread HB-GRAL
Hi Syd Am 25.02.12 17:04, schrieb syd adams: I use Aerodrome charts for reference , and then modify the existing scenery tiles by the measurements written on those charts. Ive used Qgis with shapefiles from a canadian wms server as a background image to tweak the shapefiles from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gpl scenery

2012-02-25 Thread Pedro Morgan
Can we all get a grip on this.. I dont mind spearheading for the want of the word.. a new research project.. The intention is to ascertain.. On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 7:49 PM, HB-GRAL flightg...@sablonier.ch wrote: Hi Syd Am 25.02.12 17:04, schrieb syd adams: I use Aerodrome charts for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gpl scenery

2012-02-25 Thread Vivian Meazza
HB-GRAL wrote -Original Message- From: [mailto:flightg...@sablonier.ch] Sent: 25 February 2012 19:49 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] gpl scenery Hi Syd Am 25.02.12 17:04, schrieb syd adams: I use Aerodrome charts for reference , and then modify

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gpl scenery

2012-02-25 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 26.02.12 00:30, schrieb Vivian Meazza: HB-GRAL wrote -Original Message- From: [mailto:flightg...@sablonier.ch] Sent: 25 February 2012 19:49 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] gpl scenery Hi Syd Am 25.02.12 17:04, schrieb syd adams: I use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gpl scenery

2012-02-25 Thread Stefan Gofferje
On 02/26/2012 02:21 AM, HB-GRAL wrote: No, I am not over-doing this one I think. The charts are republished this way, and charts could not be transformed to a GPL source by a personal-referencing-and-copyright-project by Syd. I am referencing the copyright and restriction of NAV CANADA (in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gpl scenery

2012-02-25 Thread syd adams
My source of info is here. http://www.navcanada.ca/NavCanada.asp?Language=enContent=ContentDefinitionFiles%5CPublications%5CAeronauticalInfoProducts%5CCanadianAirportCharts%5Cdefault.xml I also own the Canadian Flight Supplimental book purchased during flight training, which contains all the