Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 01:41:26 +0200, HB-GRAL wrote in message <4ff777a6.5070...@sablonier.ch>: > Am 05.07.12 18:04, schrieb Curtis Olson: > > > > > > > We !!!STRONGLY!!! encourage authors to use the GPL so that we can > > incorporate their work into the overall project and distribute the > > work

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-06 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 05.07.12 18:04, schrieb Curtis Olson: > > > We !!!STRONGLY!!! encourage authors to use the GPL so that we can > incorporate their work into the overall project and distribute the work http://git.fgx.ch/flightgear/commit/?h=next&id=b14ddd40110e271efcd1416e9bf15d48d99c3123 Cheers, Yves ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-06 Thread HB-GRAL
Ok, I see, just my misunderstanding of Gijs post when I read all other posts now ... I guess one of the best explanation comes from Brandano here. Sorry for the noise, I hate to participate in another license discussion. (I hate myself for this, not you.) ;-) -Yves Am 06.07.12 21:34, schrieb H

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-06 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 06.07.12 10:10, schrieb Gijs de Rooy: > Nothing stops you from releasing that scenery under whatever license you'd > like ( within the legal constraints ofourse), we just cannot include it in > the official scenery. > No. Official scenery can also incorporate resources with other licenses: ht

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:26:48 -0700 (PDT), Michael wrote in message <1341559608.65675.yahoomailclas...@web140205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>: > My last comment to this subject. > I've got permission to distribute some swiss sceneries as GPL but > only after asking back. Obviously I had to, as the author s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-06 Thread TDO Brandano
t_h...@yahoo.com > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later > > My last comment to this subject. > I've got permission to distribute some swiss sceneries as GPL but only after > asking back. Obviously I had t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-06 Thread Gijs de Rooy
om: scrat_h...@yahoo.com > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later > > My last comment to this subject. > I've got permission to distribute some swiss sceneries as GPL but only after > asking back. Obvi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-06 Thread Michael
My last comment to this subject. I've got permission to distribute some swiss sceneries as GPL but only after asking back. Obviously I had to, as the author said first that it needs to remain Freeware.- Now that's only possible because he bent back a little. But many won't or can't do and hence

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-05 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > [...] or scenery GPL? :-) Who cares about Scenery >;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-05 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Martin Spott wrote: > >> Hi Curt, >> >> Curtis Olson wrote: >> >> > We !!!STRONGLY!!! encourage authors to use the GPL [...] >> >> except from SimGear, which is supposed to be LGPL, correct ? >> > > Yes.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-05 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Martin Spott wrote: > Hi Curt, > > Curtis Olson wrote: > > > We !!!STRONGLY!!! encourage authors to use the GPL [...] > > except from SimGear, which is supposed to be LGPL, correct ? > Yes. :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olson: http://www.atiak.com - http://aem.umn.e

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-05 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Curt, Curtis Olson wrote: > We !!!STRONGLY!!! encourage authors to use the GPL [...] except from SimGear, which is supposed to be LGPL, correct ? Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-05 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Stefan Seifert wrote: > On Thursday 05 July 2012 07:50:20 Michael wrote: > > > Everything on GPL only means: > > - less scenery and airplanes included ( wasn't there recently some > > photoscenery rejected because of the GPL?) > > There are already 565 airplanes to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-05 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Thursday 05 July 2012 07:50:20 Michael wrote: > Everything on GPL only means: > - less scenery and airplanes included ( wasn't there recently some > photoscenery rejected because of the GPL?) There are already 565 airplanes to choose from in git (all licensed GPL). More than enough for me, if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-05 Thread Michael
> > And Keep It Stupid Simple (tm). One license is already too > many licenses. > Everything on GPL only means: - less scenery and airplanes included ( wasn't there recently some photoscenery rejected because of the GPL?) - authors lose copyrights - only to find their work rebranded and sold f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-04 Thread Alexis Bory
Le 04/07/2012 14:27, Erik Hofman a écrit : > On 07/04/2012 01:12 PM, Michael wrote: >> No, I mean authors could leave as is or use any licence they want. >> >>-- But it doesn't need to be GPL. -- >> >> Sorry, GPL is ok for code but feels like a lead-foot for everything else.The > The only optio

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-04 Thread Erik Hofman
On 07/04/2012 01:12 PM, Michael wrote: > No, I mean authors could leave as is or use any licence they want. > > -- But it doesn't need to be GPL. -- > > Sorry, GPL is ok for code but feels like a lead-foot for everything else.The The only option would be a less restrictive license (which you pro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-04 Thread Michael
No, I mean authors could leave as is or use any licence they want. -- But it doesn't need to be GPL. -- Sorry, GPL is ok for code but feels like a lead-foot for everything else. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Ex

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-04 Thread George Patterson
On 4 July 2012 19:45, Erik Hofman wrote: > On 07/04/2012 11:26 AM, Michael wrote: >> Hi >> is it possible to have different licences than GPL for sceneries etc.? >> Now that would help fight piracy, while keeping GPL for the source code. > > No and no. > Correct form my understanding. If someone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-04 Thread Erik Hofman
On 07/04/2012 11:26 AM, Michael wrote: > Hi > is it possible to have different licences than GPL for sceneries etc.? > Now that would help fight piracy, while keeping GPL for the source code. No and no. Erik -- http://www.adalin.com - Hardware accelerated AeonWave, OpenAL for Linux -

[Flightgear-devel] scenery licence for 2.8 and later

2012-07-04 Thread Michael
Hi is it possible to have different licences than GPL for sceneries etc.? Now that would help fight piracy, while keeping GPL for the source code. Thanks for the info Michael -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive