LesterBoffo wrote in Wed May 13, 2015 7:29 pm:Who get's to authorize who's 'qualified' as a test pilot, or a maintainer.
That's the heart of the byz lester
We are all -renegade- Volunteers, and there aint' bosses here
You do as you please.
You can fly any aircraft you want. You can change any aircraft code as you may wish.
You authorize yourself to do exactly as you please. And thus, there is no-one that can fit the shoes of an "aircraft maintainer"
No-one (even original authors) can maintain the posture of "this is MY aircraft" anymore, after the aircraft goes out GPLed.
So basically, test any aircraft you want.
Modify any aircraft you want.
And I, in FGMEMBERs will be looking forward to know those bugs, and debugs, you find or fix. And give them an open, easy wide distribution as well.
Community based efforts.
If we gave everybody in the World free software today, but we failed to teach them about the four freedoms, five years from now, would they still have it? Probably not, because if they don’t recognise their freedoms, they’ll let their freedoms fall