Hi *, On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:52:55AM -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: > On 9/17/07, Ralf Gerlich wrote: > > > > Holger Wirtz wrote: > > > But they asked me if I want to write something like a VATSIM-proxy for > > > FG to get arround the GPL problem. This proxy has to be closed-source. > > > > Hrm, so they are interested in getting FlightGear users into the boat, > > but they are not willing to open their protocol? How big can that > > interest in FlightGear users be relative to the interest in keeping > > their protocol obscured? Might that be some security-by-obscurity thing? > > > Here are a couple of my thoughts ... > > 1. Closed protocols can be a pain, but if that's the way they want to do > things, we have to honor their wishes. I'm not in the fanatical open-source > camp that insists that all software and all protocols should be 100% open. > People have to be able to put food on the table and pay their bills. I > agree that keeping the protocol closed only gives you a false sense of > security, and probably slows development and improvements ...
I have a simple problem with the copyright of such a proxy. When the protocol (and therefore the application) is closed source who can distribute the proxy? The writer of the code does this not for money and he cannot be sure if the program is selled in future or only distributed with reservations. Currently I have no interest in writing code for applications where someone else can define who and under which conditions the software gets. But perhaps someone else has interest in writing a VATSIM proxy? [...] Regards, Holger -- ##### #### ## ## Holger Wirtz Phone : (+49 30) 884299-40 ## ## ## ### ## DFN-Verein Fax : (+49 30) 884299-70 ## ## #### ###### Stresemannstr. 78 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## ## ## ## ### 10963 Berlin ##### ## ## ## GERMANY WWW : http://www.dfn.de GPG-Fingerprint: ABFA 1F51 DD8D 503C 85DC 0C51 E961 79E2 6685 9BCF ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
