Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Pro Sim Statement

[Arnt K. <ar...@c2...>]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:30:50 +0000 (GMT), Stuart wrote in message 
<724...@we...>:

> Q: Is it legal for the makers of Flight Pro Sim to simply re-brand
> FlightGear ? A: Yes. Under the GNU GPL v2

..have you guys decide _against_ GPLv3 and GPLv2-and-later 
and instead decided to go GPLv2-_only_???

..if not, FG is "GPL" and "GPLv2-and-maybe-later." ;o)

> (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html), this is legal, provided
> that they distribute the source code (or make it available).
> 
> Q: Has Flight Pro Sim paid any money to FlightGear for the rights to
> the program ? A: No. No such payment is required, as FlightGear is
> open-source

..say "is GPL software", BSD, MIT etc are also "open-source."


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