From: Curtis Olson [mailto:curtol...@gmail.com]
Jon: I respect your position, but I humbly ask then that you please post or send me your letters for usage permission from Boeing, Airbus, Douglas, Lockheed, Aérospatiale, BAC, deHavilland, McDonnell, Cessna, Fokker, (New) Piper, etc. etc. all of which (and more) you have modeled in JSBSim and distribute on the official JSBSim web site. Best regards, Curt. Curt, As you may recall, a few years ago myself and at least one other JSBSim developer did have an event that caused us to look over our "operating procedures" - and I won't go into the details, but suffice it to say that it was not a pleasant experience, although it turned out OK and in my case I was apologized to for the inconvenience. I never did figure out the exact reason why I was contacted and "questioned." As you may also recall I did post the correspondence I received from Boeing IP personnel here in this thread a couple of weeks ago. It was that response that lead us to reevaluate our process and to withdraw some aircraft models from distribution for a while. We then added some disclaimers and statements in most of them and made sure that our data was traceable to public sources. We have it much easier than FlightGear does, since the reference to an aircraft "type" using the company name (such as "Boeing 737") is far different than the use of a trademark or logo - particularly for a logo. I can't tell you guys what to do, but if it was me I would take maybe one of two approaches: 1) Make a README file that contains an appropriate disclaimer and distribute that with each model. I don't know what that disclaimer would state. 2) Continue as if nothing had changed, but contact the various trademark/logo owners and very carefully inform them of the project and ask them for permission. In any case, I strongly suspect that the worst that can happen is that if a company takes issue with the unauthorized use of its IP it will simply ask that further use be discontinued and that will be the end of it. Jon
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