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==Legal or ilegal?== | ==Legal or ilegal?== | ||
The [[GNU GPL]] license under which FlightGear is released allows reselling under certain terms. FlightGear developers have difficulties with the way FlightProSim is acting and doubt if they are acting legal. If you have any (inter)national law knowledge, please contact the developers at the [[mailing list]], they will welcome any law support. | The [[GNU GPL]] license under which FlightGear is released allows reselling under certain terms. FlightGear developers have difficulties with the way FlightProSim is acting and doubt if they are acting legal. If you have any (inter)national law knowledge, please contact the developers at the [[mailing list]], they will welcome any law support. | ||
==Why did you refuse a money offer from FlightProSim?== | |||
After a lot of negative criticism from the FlightGear developer, FlightProSim offered to fund a competition in which a developer of a nice new feature is rewarded with a sum of money ($250). The FlightGear developers have more or less un-officially decided to not accept the money offer. A couple of the reasons include: | |||
* If the guy behind FPS really is interested in improving a flight sim, he would input his addons/improvements back into the FlightGear community so the software can be further developed. | |||
* Everyone is allowed to sell FlightGear, as long as they comply with the GNU GPL v2 license. FPS did not in the past, and thus we do not trust them any more. Only after lots of requests from our side they changed their website telling the visitors (in a very small message without link) that it is actually an adaption of free software | |||
* FlightProSim also copied all content from our wiki (and initionally also our main website). That does not give a positive developer impression, more like a "we-want-money-fast-and-without-much-effort" attitude. Apart from the fact that FPS is actually part of a money making company, rather than a software developing one... | |||