Erik wrote > On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 15:24 +0200, grth_team wrote: > > FG 2.4 consistency. > > > > Hello, > > > > You don't know us since we are newbee, (3 months working seriously > > with FG). > > We are a team ( 4 guys and a lady ). > > > > We have had several talks with several devel team persons about a > > Catalina model update. > > > > That update has been rejected arguing that everything is frozen until > > FG 2.4 will be freed, considered consistent, without any bug. > > It's not so much rejected, but declined to be included in GIT. > > The current release process is quite new to all of us so there might > come up some unforeseen problems. Clearly this is one of them. It's > unfortunate since you've put so much work in it, but then remember; so > have all of use (or at least the great majority has). > > Judging from this email it wasn't the intention just to drop your > efforts with the flip of a switch but it just happens to be bad timing; > if you could have offered it three weeks ago everything would have been > fine. > > You are free to offer the model on your own (many aircraft developers to > this for one reason or another) and I for one am pleased to see others > to step up to improve upon our current aircraft. > > So I would advise to try to get it included just after the new release > and then when the 2.6 release is in feature freeze you could still get > bug fixes included (which are probably minor compared to a complete > overhaul). > > > To please to the users, our model will be ever checked against an FG > > stable version. > > We will start that rule with FG 2.4, offering our models within our > > pages, but, under an other license. > > I have tot state that it is not allowed to change the license unless: > * everything you use is your own work > * or you're moving to a more restrictive license that is still open > source (which is hard in case of the GPL). >
I have downloaded and compared the updated version released under CC and the GPL version in Git. It is a nice improvement in terms of detail, however, much of it is carried over verbatim or with minor updates from the GPL version. In particular this applies to the JSBSim config (author Ron Jenson) whose permission, I understand, has neither been sought nor given to this license change. I think that Ron, as the copyright holder, might be justified in pursuing this matter. It also uses some clever techniques which work in FG, but do not in FGRun. It also appears that there are 5 image files missing. It is therefore fortunate that this update has not been included in Git before the release of 2.4. Contrary to the claims made, the version in Git runs without error under Windows XP, and I see no reason why it should not under later Windows variants. It is in any case, highly unlikely that any aircraft in our inventory would run under Linux, but not under Windows. If there are known to be any - a proper bug report would be welcome, and not the vague hand waving which was purported to be a bug report by the grth-team. I would encourage the grth-team to get it right, and forward a proper Merge Request in Gitorious. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel