On Wednesday 18 October 2006 22:27, Andy Ross wrote: > Lee Elliott wrote: > > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > Weird: > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/FLIGHTGEAR-2006-PROFESSIONAL-AVIATION > > >-FLIGHT-SIMULATOR_W0QQitemZ160036333084QQcmdZViewItem > > > > It is actually FlightGear - this person appears to have > > re-packaged FG i.e. basic system with most of the more > > complete aircraft included i.e. > > > > I found no mention that this stuff is covered by the GPL or > > if the source-code is included/available, which I believe > > is a requirement of the GPL. > > This subject came up on IRC a few days ago. I sent the guy a > nice email explaining the requirements, and pointing out that > the easiest way to do this is to explain in the auction that > this is an open source project hosted at www.flightgear.org. > > He replied that he already includes the source code and GPL in > the package, but that he would be happy to add a > flightgear.org link to the auction. I haven't gone back to > check. > > There's actually nothing wrong with selling free software for > money, so he's basically fine. It's just slightly misleading > to do so without explaining that it is also freely available. > > Andy
If he's complying with the GPL by including the source and a copy of the GPL then, as you say, he's perfectly entitled to sell it. It was because the of way and style that he presented the packages that made me a bit suspicious. Also, I'm not so sure about re-naming it "FlightGear 2006 Professional" As FG is still at version 0.9 and the consensus of the developers seems to be that FG isn't ready for a Vn 1.0 release yet, having someone selling it as the 'latest' professional version might not do the project's reputation any good. Personally, it doesn't bother me too much as I just use FG to experiment and play with, and then offer whatever results I come up with to the project, to do with as it pleases. The only thing that slightly bothers me about someone passing off any of my work as part of a "FlightGear 2006 Professional" package is that I don't consider any of my work to be of commercial quality and I wouldn't want anyone else to think that I did so. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
