See attached forwarded message. Someone is selling FlightGear on ebay.
This time there is no mention of our project name, they have changed the
name and are calling it Pro Aircraft Flight Simulator. In addition, they
are using the same sleazy tactics of selling a digital download, not actual
On 6/14/07, Bill Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
DId you report this to EBay? They are usually pretty good about
resolving issues like this.
I reported it myself, but i think if everyone on this list took a minute and
also reported it, ebay couldn't simply discount me as some lunatic
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On 6/14/07, Bill Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
DId
On 6/14/07, Bill Galbraith wrote:
I agree that his actions are slimy, but is this action actually an
allowable form of packaging this software. I am not an expert on this
matter, by any stretch of the imagination, but if I put FG and all of the
available aicraft on a CD and sold the CD for the
--- Curtis Olson wrote:
On 6/14/07, Bill Galbraith wrote:
DId you report this to EBay? They are usually pretty good about
resolving issues like this.
I reported it myself, but i think if everyone on this list took a minute
and
also reported it, ebay couldn't simply discount me as
They're not the only ones selling FlighGear on ebay. But others I've
seen, while misleading, at least showed graphics including the
FlightGear name and logo in the body of their auction. It looks like
these guys are also trying to borrow on the name Pro Flight (a maybe
dead product from Sierra
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Bill Galbraith wrote:
I agree that his actions are slimy, but is this action actually an allowable
form of packaging this software. I am not an expert on this matter, by any
stretch of the imagination, but if I put FG and all of the available
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Curtis Olson wrote:
On 6/14/07, Bill Galbraith wrote:
But he has changed the name of the product and removed all reference to
FlightGear in his ad, that has to at least be a copyright infringement???
FlightGear is not public domain where any one
See attached forwarded message. Someone is selling FlightGear
on ebay. This time there is no mention of our project name, they have
changed the name and are calling it Pro Aircraft Flight Simulator. In
addition, they are using the same sleazy tactics of selling a digital
download, not
Hi!
Even though I don't like the kind of behaviour the seller is exhibiting,
from the article page alone I cannot see any legal problem regarding the
GPL. Changing the name is legitimate in general as the GPL IIRC does not
require the distributor to credit the original authors with anything
else
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