Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGLive 0.1 alpha available for testing

[Steve Hosgood]

Martin Spott wrote: Steve Hosgood wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Maybe it's just a 'symptom', a side-effect of the fight about the Right Way (TM) on how to use OpenGL for desktop eye candy, probably driven by jealousy .... ?!? There's been a Slashdot thread covering this at: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/14/2059242 Well, I didn't find anything new in this thread... Sorry - I didn't say it contained anything new, just that it existed. actually it consists of statements that are being repeated for months or years now Yeah - it isn't like this hasn't happened before, but I must admit I'd thought the situation had been resolved ages ago. I.e. it is OK to have a proprietary plug-in to GPL-ed software as long as it is indeed a plug-in, not compiled in. Loadable device drivers would count as a "plug-in". Obviously. Look at things like Xine and Mplayer, the DVD and media players. They use plugins all the time (many of them intended to work on M$ Windows), and there's never been a fuss about distributing Xine or Mplayer. There has been a fuss about acquiring some of the plugins that were intended for use with M$ Windows, but that was down to copyright and licencing issues from the authors of the plugins. The FGLive CD doesn't have that problem because the copyright holders of the 3D drivers are OK about redistribution. - and finally the thread doesn't give any insight into the motivation behind this EMail that has been cited. Ah yes, trouble is you'll probably never know that bit. It could be M$ themselves spreading FUD (wouldn't be the first time) and it could just be some loser 15 yr old idealist doing some trolling. Steve.