Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 01:41:26 +0200, HB-GRAL wrote in message 4ff777a6.5070...@sablonier.ch: Am 05.07.12 18:04, schrieb Curtis Olson: We !!!STRONGLY!!! encourage authors to use the GPL so that we can incorporate their work into the overall project and distribute the work

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-06 Thread Michael
My last comment to this subject. I've got permission to distribute some swiss sceneries as GPL but only after asking back. Obviously I had to, as the author said first that it needs to remain Freeware.- Now that's only possible because he bent back a little. But many won't or can't do and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-06 Thread Gijs de Rooy
...@yahoo.com To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later My last comment to this subject. I've got permission to distribute some swiss sceneries as GPL but only after asking back. Obviously I had to, as the author said first

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-06 Thread TDO Brandano
To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later My last comment to this subject. I've got permission to distribute some swiss sceneries as GPL but only after asking back. Obviously I had to, as the author said first that it needs to remain

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:26:48 -0700 (PDT), Michael wrote in message 1341559608.65675.yahoomailclas...@web140205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com: My last comment to this subject. I've got permission to distribute some swiss sceneries as GPL but only after asking back. Obviously I had to, as the author said

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-06 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 06.07.12 10:10, schrieb Gijs de Rooy: Nothing stops you from releasing that scenery under whatever license you'd like ( within the legal constraints ofourse), we just cannot include it in the official scenery. No. Official scenery can also incorporate resources with other licenses:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-06 Thread HB-GRAL
Ok, I see, just my misunderstanding of Gijs post when I read all other posts now ... I guess one of the best explanation comes from Brandano here. Sorry for the noise, I hate to participate in another license discussion. (I hate myself for this, not you.) ;-) -Yves Am 06.07.12 21:34, schrieb

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-06 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 05.07.12 18:04, schrieb Curtis Olson: We !!!STRONGLY!!! encourage authors to use the GPL so that we can incorporate their work into the overall project and distribute the work http://git.fgx.ch/flightgear/commit/?h=nextid=b14ddd40110e271efcd1416e9bf15d48d99c3123 Cheers, Yves

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-05 Thread Michael
And Keep It Stupid Simple (tm). One license is already too many licenses. Everything on GPL only means: - less scenery and airplanes included ( wasn't there recently some photoscenery rejected because of the GPL?) - authors lose copyrights - only to find their work rebranded and sold for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-05 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Stefan Seifert wrote: On Thursday 05 July 2012 07:50:20 Michael wrote: Everything on GPL only means: - less scenery and airplanes included ( wasn't there recently some photoscenery rejected because of the GPL?) There are already 565 airplanes to choose

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-05 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Martin Spott martin.sp...@mgras.net wrote: Hi Curt, Curtis Olson wrote: We !!!STRONGLY!!! encourage authors to use the GPL [...] except from SimGear, which is supposed to be LGPL, correct ? Yes. :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olson: http://www.atiak.com -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-05 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Martin Spott wrote: Hi Curt, Curtis Olson wrote: We !!!STRONGLY!!! encourage authors to use the GPL [...] except from SimGear, which is supposed to be LGPL, correct ? Yes. :-) Perhaps RMS

[Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-04 Thread Michael
Hi is it possible to have different licences than GPL for sceneries etc.? Now that would help fight piracy, while keeping GPL for the source code. Thanks for the info Michael -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-04 Thread Erik Hofman
On 07/04/2012 11:26 AM, Michael wrote: Hi is it possible to have different licences than GPL for sceneries etc.? Now that would help fight piracy, while keeping GPL for the source code. No and no. Erik -- http://www.adalin.com - Hardware accelerated AeonWave, OpenAL for Linux

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-04 Thread George Patterson
On 4 July 2012 19:45, Erik Hofman e...@ehofman.com wrote: On 07/04/2012 11:26 AM, Michael wrote: Hi is it possible to have different licences than GPL for sceneries etc.? Now that would help fight piracy, while keeping GPL for the source code. No and no. Correct form my understanding. If

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-04 Thread Michael
No, I mean authors could leave as is or use any licence they want. -- But it doesn't need to be GPL. -- Sorry, GPL is ok for code but feels like a lead-foot for everything else. -- Live Security Virtual Conference

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-04 Thread Erik Hofman
On 07/04/2012 01:12 PM, Michael wrote: No, I mean authors could leave as is or use any licence they want. -- But it doesn't need to be GPL. -- Sorry, GPL is ok for code but feels like a lead-foot for everything else.The The only option would be a less restrictive license (which you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-04 Thread Alexis Bory
Le 04/07/2012 14:27, Erik Hofman a écrit : On 07/04/2012 01:12 PM, Michael wrote: No, I mean authors could leave as is or use any licence they want. -- But it doesn't need to be GPL. -- Sorry, GPL is ok for code but feels like a lead-foot for everything else.The The only option would be