Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlieghtGear and VATSIM

[George P. <geo...@gm...>]

On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 19:47 +0100, Holger Wirtz wrote:
> Hello *,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:36:34PM +0100, Stefan Seifert wrote:
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> > Holger Wirtz wrote:
> > > Hi,
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> > > does anyone know if there are considerations to add VATSIm Support to
> > > FlightGear?
> > 
> > There have already been some threads about that topic on this mailing list.
> > In short: adding support isn't really possible due to licensing
> > incompatibilities. VATSim won't allow free and open source code to
> > access their network and FG's GPL license would prohibit including a
> > proprietary VATSim library.
> > But there has been some talk about stand-alone bridging software AFAIK.
> 
> The background of my question was the following:
> If there are ideas to implement VATSIM I need not to go on to implenent
> something else (non compatible) for flightgear.
> 
> Thanks, Holger
> 

Hi Holger,

The short of it is fairly simple. VATSIM refuses to release the details
of their protocol (possible exception being via an NDA) which makes it
incompatible with an Open source project. As such it will never be
included with Flightgear or even in the same cvs repositiory.

Therefore we (the flightgear community) will have come up with our own
protocol and means of operating.

Regards


George