I would like to do a bit of clarity on the use of other people's software.
If in the package distributed freely there is no copyright notice the acquired practice is to refer to the world wide used GPL (General Public License see
www.fsf.org ).
This license states that the software licensed freely may be freely copied, modified and distributed as long as the derivative work is also distributed as free software.
No original author permission is required since it is implied into the license itself, however is a fair habit to give credits to original author mentioning them as contributors.
So said, SSW does not have distributed nothing yet about his modification on Ivan Jurcaga MIG 21, so we are speaking of nothing, when and if it will be done all credits will be given to original authors and contributors and obviously, following GPL rules, it will be free.
ALL textures will be done using our own resources and using a derivative paintkit for which we already have the permission to use and modify by the original author, Kendy Schwarz.
Since all liveries will be fictional we do not run the risk to be unpolite toward others authors.
So about what we are discussing ?
I guess all is started about an Dag complaint made earlier than things would have happened:
Dag denied a permission before it was asked even if it should not even be asked, we never had an intention to distribute liveries made by him and will continue to do so, we just mentioned him to give credits in sake of politeness, as we did for Zsolt.
SSW wanted do something useful for the community, following both legal and correctness rules, but if this are the results even before to begin, we guess that is far better keep things private and use our work for us.
cheers
/SSW
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