[Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear under dubious pretenses

[Shane Martin Coughlan]

Hi Arnt

Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> ..I'll cut 'n paste again:
> ..good old fashion software piracy AFAICT from my copy of
> http://idbproductions.com/Products/ , and Andrew Casey's "if 
> it's under the GPL", this far I've found FG, Audacity, Wesnoth, 
> 7Zip and several other's I haven't identified yet due to Casey 
> et al's "rebranding", at least FG developers has had their art 
> stolen and "rebranded" and I see several other peoples screen 
> shots treated similarly.  Casey's www.flight-aviator.com and
> flightprosim.com and idbproductions.com/catalog/ used to sell 
> these "rebranded products" without any mention of the GPL.

If Flightgear is under the GPL then re-branding is not necessarily a
violation.  Re-branding is not prohibited by the GPL licence, though
copyright attribution and so on cannot be removed from the code.

It does not appear that attribution has been necessarily been removed.
On http://www.flightprosim.com/ it says "Based on the award winning
Flight Gear project."  If the software 'flight-aviator' or 'flight sim
pro' is distributed with a copy of the GPL and source code or a written
offer to provide source code, then it may be compliant with the terms of
the licence.

You need to establish if the project is distributing Flightgear derived
code (or other content distributed under the same licence) outside of
the terms of the GPL.

Regards

Shane

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