[Flightgear-devel] Wiki link

2010-03-24 Thread Bob Faulkner
Just a heads up to who controls it. (Curt?) The link to the wiki from the main website appears to be broken, and has been for some time. It links to: http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page when I believe simply linking to: http://wiki.flightgear.org would be adequa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Copyrights

2010-01-05 Thread Bob Faulkner
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:10:33 -0800 (PST) > From: "J. Holden" > This software (C) 2001-2010 FlightGear > Licensed under the GPLv2. > Cheers > John >leee wrote: > > John, in referring to "our" software, I'm afraid that you're missing > > the point of the GPL. Once the software has been releas

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Pro Sim Statement (v1.3)

2009-12-21 Thread Bob Faulkner
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Bob Faulkner wrote: > > > >> Q: I have purchased Flight Pro Sim. Can I get a refund ? > >> A: That is something you will have to take up with the dist

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Pro Sim Statement (v1.3)

2009-12-21 Thread Bob Faulkner
Q: I have purchased Flight Pro Sim. Can I get a refund ? A: That is something you will have to take up with the distributors of Flight Pro Sim. Change "makers" to "distributors" Bob -- Delusional Mail (http://www.delusionalmind.com)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane simulator development

2009-11-10 Thread Bob Faulkner
in; charset="utf-8" > > On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 17:56 -0500, Bob Faulkner wrote: > > I notice that our local (Australian) national meteorology > department lists several international > hurricane and cyclone warning centres, and from what I see of > t

[Flightgear-devel] Hurricane simulator development

2009-11-09 Thread Bob Faulkner
This message is to announce my intentions to develop a hurricane simulation system for FlightGear. I've done only preliminary work on locating data resources, and in exploring the source code to get a grasp of the different systems I'll have to interface with in FlightGear. This will be my first t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear URL verification patch

2009-10-25 Thread Bob Faulkner
I personally don't like the premise of trying to place artificial limits on how anyone uses this sim. Even trying to do so feels like an insult to the basic idea behind the GPL. If someone received a binary copy of the sim and felt like modifying it with a hex editor, that's their right, and I don'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear on ebay

2009-10-22 Thread Bob Faulkner
I believe this person was well within their rights up until they claimed copyright over the entire work. Even if they have copyright on accompanying software they wrote to work with it, I believe they are required to license it under the GPL if they distribute it with FG. I'm pretty sure claiming