Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:17:23 -0500, Jim wrote in message : > Use of trademarked logos on liveries may possibly fall under > nominative fair use, assuming they are accurate, as depiction of the > trademarks are necessary to depict a publicly visible plane. To > quote wikipedia with my own commen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

Use of trademarked logos on liveries may possibly fall under nominative fair use, assuming they are accurate, as depiction of the trademarks are necessary to depict a publicly visible plane. To quote wikipedia with my own comments in brackets, and randomly using American Airlines as the example:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

Reagan Thomas wrote: > Nathanael Rebsch wrote: > >> i once took care of sorting out the legal situation of OpenTTD. >> OpenTTD was reverse engeneered from Transport Tycoon (Deluxe, IIRC). >> This work was done in Sweden, where now law prohibited the reverse >> engeneering if lisence agreements

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

Things have certainly changed. Back in 1995 I was helping to run a Virtual American Airlines and after 4 or so months of operating actively (FS95 it was!) we got a letter stating we had to shut down immediately or start paying licensing costs, which were thousands per day if I recall correctly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

Nathanael Rebsch wrote: > i once took care of sorting out the legal situation of OpenTTD. > OpenTTD was reverse engeneered from Transport Tycoon (Deluxe, IIRC). > This work was done in Sweden, where now law prohibited the reverse > engeneering if lisence agreements (e.g. eula) did not take care o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

i once took care of sorting out the legal situation of OpenTTD. OpenTTD was reverse engeneered from Transport Tycoon (Deluxe, IIRC). This work was done in Sweden, where now law prohibited the reverse engeneering if lisence agreements (e.g. eula) did not take care of such notices - on this very C

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

Ohh.. fogot to mention legal USA entities blocked http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Nathanael Rebsch wrote: > congratulations 'peter morgan' for posting such an amusiong email. > > Thank you.. I take that as a compliment.. Please add me along with "John Denker" .. and guess everyone else chased him away.. maybe me also Who was the inspiration fo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

sorry.. I am definately not good as explaining things.. There is a TV show in the UK called the "Dragons Den" - its a good watch.. One thing I do is look at any project first positively outcome outlook and then the deperately negatively and forecast how everything could go tits up.. This is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

Hi, as maintainer/founder of the "official" livery database I will try to answer Pete's questions, altough I do not understand how most of them are related to the liveries anyway... The livery database was set up as a repository, just like http://scenemodels.flightgear.org, to host data tha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

Hi, I have to agree Nathanael! Very funny... I don't think that Gijs and Curtis will like your posting here Some answers: >Welcome at the official database for FlightGear liveries! >With respect I wish to establish some facts1) who are the "officers" in >>charge to make it official and Curti

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

congratulations 'peter morgan' for posting such an amusiong email. 1. i personally have no idea, but i can tell it's a subdomain of flightgear.org which tells me that it's origins are somewhere in flightgear! 2. originating from the ones who run flightgear.org makes it official, as in that it i

[Flightgear-devel] Official

I notice that there is a domain named http://liveries.flightgear.org/ This site is "self titled" as Welcome at the official database for FlightGear liveries! With respect I wish to establish some facts 1) who are the "officers" in charge to make it official and 2) where is the database, and under

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official IRC chat down, emergency backup working

Thanks! > > Yeah, it looks that the server is down. I tried Mibbit and Colloquy, both > > of them weren't working. Pinging the server results in a request timeout. > > :-/ > > Use the backup: irc.freenode.net #flightgear > > Ontdek nu Windows phone. De smartphone van dit moment >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official IRC chat down, emergency backup working

Seems to be network problem. I can see other quitting before I lost connection. 01:06 -!- Esa [~...@80-248-254-165.cust.suomicom.fi] has quit [Ping timeout] 01:06 -!- geneb_shop [~chatzi...@c-24-18-6-110.hsd1.wa.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout] 01:06 -!- Jester [~...@91.147.242.114] has quit [

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official IRC chat down, emergency backup working

> Yeah, it looks that the server is down. I tried Mibbit and Colloquy, both of > them weren't working. Pinging the server results in a request timeout. :-/ Use the backup: irc.freenode.net #flightgear _

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official IRC chat down, emergency backup working

Yeah, it looks that the server is down. I tried Mibbit and Colloquy, both of them weren't working. Pinging the server results in a request timeout. :-/ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 200

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official IRC chat down, emergency backup working

Yeah, I can't connect to the server too. I'll try with another client and see if it works. > Hi, > > Quick note: > > while beeing on the chat today, I noticed suddenly that I can't send any > massages anymore. > > First I thought it was a problem of my browser (Opera), but using Firefox > wa

[Flightgear-devel] Official IRC chat down, emergency backup working

Hi, Quick note: while beeing on the chat today, I noticed suddenly that I can't send any massages anymore. First I thought it was a problem of my browser (Opera), but using Firefox wasn't better... Fortunately the Emergency backup is working I see Cheers HHS still in work: http://www.hoerb