[Flightgear-devel] Texture contribution
Hi All, The maintainer of a textures website has offered some of his textures to be GPL'd and contributed to the project: http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10163 On the assumption that we should take up his kind offer, who would like to be the point of contact? As anyone who has seen my attempts at aircraft texturing will attest, I'm certainly not an artist, and don't feel best placed to handle this. -Stuart __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Texture contribution
On Thu, 8 May 2008 13:08:12 + (GMT), Stuart wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All, The maintainer of a textures website has offered some of his textures to be GPL'd and contributed to the project: http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10163 On the assumption that we should take up his kind offer, who would like to be the point of contact? As anyone who has seen my attempts at aircraft texturing will attest, I'm certainly not an artist, and don't feel best placed to handle this. -Stuart ..maybe he could join us here? ;o) ..I believe he is wrong in his opinion of being unable to make a good living off his texture web site. And I too am happy to help convince him. And the best part is how he starts with a limited set of textures. He will be able to tell us how this impacts his web site business. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Texture contribution
--- On Thu, 8/5/08, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..maybe he could join us here? ;o) I don't think he has any interest in FG - he was approached by another forum member who wanted to use his textures in a building. ..I believe he is wrong in his opinion of being unable to make a good living off his texture web site. And I too am happy to help convince him. And the best part is how he starts with a limited set of textures. He will be able to tell us how this impacts his web site business. ;o) I hope he can make a living from his texture website, and I think GPLing some textures is a good marketing tool. However, I can't see any commercial justification for GPLing all the textures, given that they are already fairly free for end-user use. In this case the textures themselves represent a very large part of his IP and business. In contrast, a lot of OSS businesses have professional services ontop of the GPL'd IP as the actual business, so the core software is not as important to them. Anyway, I am not familiar with his business, and it would be presumptious (if not rather rude) of me to comment further. I'm just very thankful he has offered as much as he has. On a more technical note - if we are offered a choice, it might be a good idea to discuss the sort of textures that would be particularly useful to the project. I've had a quick look through the site, and there aren't any that look particularly applicable as ground textures, but there are some nice elevation views of buildings which could be useful. -Stuart __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
