Erik Hofman writes: > > That's why I prefer public domain even to open source -- people spend > > way too long worrying about that kind of thing. > > Now, I would be worried that getting data from other sources and putting > it under the BSD license (which makes it possible to use it in closed > source programs without permission from the original author) might be a > problem for the original authour. Personally I think putting it under > the GPL would be less of a problem to them.
That's pure speculation -- we have no way of knowing what the original publisher of the data might prefer. If the original publisher did maintain IP rights over the raw data, then we would have no right to put it under any license at all; if not, then the original publisher has no special rights in the case. Even the moral obligation of courtesy is a tricky one. James Clark used to stipulate that commercial users of his SGML software *not* mention his name without permission: he was worried that it would look like he was giving an endorsement. If a commercial 182 add-on for MSFS came out with this on the wrapper Now with NEW, ACCURATE flight data from JAN ROSKAM! Roskam might not be pleased either. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
