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Drawback of not sharing scenery source

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Hi!
One drawback of not sharing all source information and code, is when we get new FS-versions. Scenery made for older FS-version don't work, and the developers of those, have left the FS community.

If we instead had all the original image files, gmax-files etc. the work of converting those old sceneries or aircrafts, would be much easier.
 
Hi,

That reasoning is true of course, but if we would share our work like that people could also easily take our hard work and modify it a bit and then say it it theirs.

I guess this could work if it was released under some sort of open source license that requires everybody that uses it to share the sources as well.

But I also understand that people who spend thousands of hours on a big addon don't want to give all the sources away for free (even if they release the product as freeware).
 
Hi!
arno said:
That reasoning is true of course, but if we would share our work like that people could also easily take our hard work and modify it a bit and then say it it theirs.

I guess this could work if it was released under some sort of open source license that requires everybody that uses it to share the sources as well.

But I also understand that people who spend thousands of hours on a big addon don't want to give all the sources away for free (even if they release the product as freeware).
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All freeware projects have same sort of problems. Some steal the code and says it's theirs. But the majority of people are not thiefs.

In all freeware project some people spend thousands of hours on the subject. Many freeware project have code repositories on the net. Anyone can download the source code and contribute with their work. But not so in scenery projects.

What's the difference between FS scenery/aircraft projects and other freeware projects?

I can't see any difference.
 
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