Re: [Flightgear-devel] announcing star trek runabout shuttle and

[GWMobile <geo...@mi...>]

Of course it should not be included in the package.
Legal 101  :-)


On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 9:48 am, Steve Hosgood wrote:
> Martin Spott wrote:
>
>> Hi Stewart,
>>
>> Stewart Andreason wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I thought I was done, but you know how it goes. I thought of several=20
>>> ideas for
>>> improvements, and managed to write the code to do it.
>>>
>>
>>
>> How would you define "non-profit commercial use". Does your intention
>> meet the demands of the GPLv2 ?
>>
>>
>
> Ignoring GPL issues for a moment (important though they may be), the=20
> entire concept of the Star Trek=AE Danube-Class=AE Landing Craft=AE is=20
> copyright=A9 by Paramount Pictures=AE until about the year 2845 (assuming=
=20
> the US government manage to keep extending the terms as they have for=20
> the last 50 or so years).
>
> Is it safe for FG to include such a likely target for Paramount=20
> Pictures'=AE Copyright=A9 Lawyers=AE (*)?
> It looks like a great model (from the screenshots) and probably would=20
> be nice eye candy and publicity for the FG project, but it could be a=20
> ticking bomb for us. I'm rather uneasy about it all....
>
> Steve
>
> (*) Yes, I'm overdoing the =AE's and =A9's for effect :-)
> Have you ever read the blurb on offical ST merchandise? It's plastered=20
> with them - and "tm" too (which I don't seem to have a symbol for,=20
> otherwise I'd have abused that too!).

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