[Flightgear-devel] Re: Head tracking (was: Formation Flying)

[Anders G. <and...@gi...>]

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Arnt Karlsen wrote:

> On Tue, 16 May 2006 21:04:57 +0200 (CEST), Anders wrote in message
> <Pin...@le...>:
>
>> On Tue, 16 May 2006, alexander babichev wrote:
>>
>>> I finished first version of TrackIR support for FlightGear.  There
>>> are still  many things to do, but it works just fine.  One can run
>>> TrackIR on Windows  computer and FlightGear on Linux box without
>>> problems.
>>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Great! If you could post a protocol description
>
> ...or...
>
>> (e.g. the source of the network part) I'll see if I can't implement
>> something similar and  hopefully compatible using ARToolkit.
>
> ..in principle, these are 2 very different things, legally, such as a
> specification and source code.
> If you provides the first, Anders could provide his clean room source
> code, _without_ needing TrackIR's permission, and legally too.  ;o)

Yes, that's a good idea, and in this case the code for the receiving end 
in FG (assuming one is needed) could also be enough - I only need to know what 
is supposed to be in those packets. Specifications often have the problem 
that they neither get written nor updated.
I thought Alexander wrote the networking code and that he was allowed to 
distribute it, albeit not licensed under the GPL.

Cheers,

Anders
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