On Nov 21, 2008, at 7:49 AM, Stuart Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >> > > One way to discourage this sort of thing would be to include > "www.flightgear.org > " prominently in the startup screens, in the > same way that we include "initializing sub-systems", > "initializing scenery".
They might replace the string with binary editor. Encoding a massage in some way can be good against such case, maybe not enough but it is a bit hard to find a way to crack it. > Possibly with an added message along the lines of "Welcome to > FlightGear, the free open source flight simulator." > > That would force the rip-off merchants to at least compile the code, > rather than simply replacing some .pngs! We can also hardcore some small image (probably with a checksum validation) showing such message on or next to splash image. This way it may take a while to modify it even they can get source code. But I think there was some discussion on similar idea but not implemented yet, so this probably is not a suitable idea. Maybe a good combination of obfuscation and clear message without messing code is a good idea. Tat ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
