--- On Thu, 8/5/08, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..maybe he could join us here? ;o)
I don't think he has any interest in FG - he was approached by another forum member who wanted to use his textures in a building. > ..I believe he is wrong in his opinion of being unable to > make a good living off his texture web site. And I too am > happy to help convince him. And the best part is how he > starts with a limited set of textures. He will be able > to tell us how this "impacts" his web site > business. ;o) I hope he can make a living from his texture website, and I think GPLing some textures is a good marketing tool. However, I can't see any commercial justification for GPLing all the textures, given that they are already fairly free for end-user use. In this case the textures themselves represent a very large part of his IP and business. In contrast, a lot of OSS businesses have professional services ontop of the GPL'd IP as the actual business, so the core software is not as important to them. Anyway, I am not familiar with his business, and it would be presumptious (if not rather rude) of me to comment further. I'm just very thankful he has offered as much as he has. On a more technical note - if we are offered a choice, it might be a good idea to discuss the sort of textures that would be particularly useful to the project. I've had a quick look through the site, and there aren't any that look particularly applicable as ground textures, but there are some nice elevation views of buildings which could be useful. -Stuart __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel