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The open-source world depends on license terms and copyrights and cooperation and trust to protect our work. We put up with a small subset of people who willing abuse those terms and hope that larger group peer pressure will keep the bad actors in check. Sometimes there is legal recourse, sometimes it is tough to do anything about it when problems span country boundaries (or when someone just wants to break the rules for their own self serving reasons.) My feeling though is in the long term, most people are honest and do wish to do the right thing, and the small group that is truly there to cause problems or just serve themselves at the expense of others will never endure as long as the larger group of people with good intentions. In the end, you have to make your own determination of how much effort you put into a model, versus how much money you could make selling it, versus the risk of someone copying and distributing it themselves, versus the legal costs to try to stop them.<ref>{{cite web | |||
|url = https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/35074534/ | |||
|title = <nowiki> Re: [Flightgear-devel] can i distribute my airplane as a shared | |||
library, and what legislation issues would that ensue? </nowiki> | |||
|author = <nowiki> Curtis Olson </nowiki> | |||
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