On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 14:29 +0100, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Arnt Karlsen -- Saturday 07 February 2009: > > Then why are you here, asking us for freebee help? > ^^ > I'm sure he didn't specifically ask you anything. Posting to > flightgear-devel usually means you want to address FlightGear > developers (in the widest sense) -- and I'm afraid that's a > group that doesn't exactly include you. > > Sure, we can't automatically assume that whatever FGD-ML's > group produces will be GPL-compatible and can, therefore, > be re-distributed with FlightGear -- something that people > should IMHO consider when they spend their time helping
This is something I always consider. I usually don't spend much, if any, time helping if I don't see the end result being a net gain to FlightGear. And I don't see closed licensed add-ons as being a net gain. > -- but as long as this group respects our license, everything's fine. That is true. > Aren't we also supporting FlightGear users who will never > distribute anything, under whichever license? > > And it's not like fixing a broken *.lwo importer wouldn't be > an advantage for both OSG and FlightGear -- two Free projects > (apart from OpenSceneGraph-Data, that is ;-). OpenSceneGraph-Data supports Arnt's point. ;-) Fixing the lwo importer will benefit OSG, FlightGear and Ian. Which is why I find Ian's singular unwillingness to provide an example of a textured model both puzzling and disturbing. Thanks for reading, Ron (who is not kill-filtering Arnt) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
