Re: [Flightgear-devel] Catalina OSG animation and animated people

[leee <le...@sp...>]

On Tuesday 11 September 2007 16:00, gh.robin wrote:
> On lun 10 septembre 2007, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just read on IRC , i am accused by an other French developer to have
> > copied the work from an  other person regarding the osg application
> > particles, and am accused to have not given the credit for it.
> >
> > I must to say that i did not copy anything, and if i had copied, i would
> > have said where the code and models were coming from.
> >
> > I have written the catalina osg  script, and it is far to be perfect :(
> >
> > To write osg script is not so difficult , anybody who has access to the=
se
> > links and others, can do it.
> >
> > http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/Support/Tutorials/Parti=
cl
> >eE ffects
> > http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~malloy/courses/3dgames-2007/tutor/web/partic=
le
> >s/ particles.html
> >
> > And a lot of examples which are there
> > http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/browser/OpenSceneGraph-Data
> >
> > The Credit must given to Mathias, and Tim, who work on the implementati=
on
> > of OSG.
> >
> > I worry that noise about it , mainly regarding the Catalina which to me
> > more than only one other  model from my hangar.
> >
> > --G=E9rard
>
> I  must be said here ,  on request from Mr Emmanuel BARRANGER, since i am
> under pressure, getting from him insults and insults on the french Forum:
>
> Mr Emmanuel BARRANGER was the FIRST to introduce OSG particles into
> FlightGear models animations.
> And since he conclude any new specific OSG script is only a copy of his
> work, the GPL Copyright must not handle the name of the script author (me)
> , but his own name, giving him credit of my work.
>
> I didn't forecast when introducing theses features, it could come up such
> reactions.
> Probably, i would have given Catalina PLIB compatible only.
>
> The Catalina water bombing will not be enough to fight that fire.
>
> Sorry again for that noise, i hope that bad Scenario will end quickly.
>
> That Mail should never be here,  i found only one way to relax (keep cool
> boy....) , =3D> to write that Mail.
>
> Thanks for listening me.
>
> Cheers
>
> Regards

This sounds spurious to me, but I'd need to hear both sides to be certain.

Is the script specific to the Catalina and does it just implement an existi=
ng=20
feature within OSG?  It would seem to me that particles are an existing=20
feature of OSG so the feature has not been created by anyone but just used=
=20
for the first time.

Like I say though, I'd need to hear both sides of this argument, which does=
n't=20
seem to be in the spirit of Open-source.

LeeE