Thorsten wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Renk [mailto:thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi]
> Sent: 06 September 2012 10:47
> To: FlightGear developers discussions
> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] license
> 
> There remains this strange discrepancy between what people are outraged
> about and what could potentially stand in court.
> 

snip

> * violations of GPL because the source code is not really available.
> 
> So we're really down from fraud to the availability of source code on a
> website - and if FlightProSim would make all the code easily available by
> simply cloning the Flightgear repositories, you'd all be happy because
they
> are now in complicance with GPL? Somehow I don't think so, somehow I
> think this isn't what upsets people.
> 

Even that is available, or used to be. I downloaded a copy, which AFAIKS was
just our source code, despite their claims to have modified it. Qs you say -
that's how it is. I think we ought to try to avoid having this discussion
every 12 months or so, covering the same ground, and coming to exactly the
same conclusion. 

Caveat emptor.

Vivian



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