Only the zealots here decided doing so was a threat to Flightgear addon and trumped up the 'copyright violation' argument and deplatformed them as everyone here can see they're attempting to do now in this thread.
Well... you left out a few points.
First of all, there were
actual copyright violations - some intentional changes of license files by founding FGMembers characters. There were also unintentional copyright violations caused by the idea of having a
no review policy for content, so naturally content could be submitted by anyone, even those ignorant or not caring for the licenses. Then there was the insistence to go against a consensus that had been discussed on the FG list for several years and finally agreed upon, that is to use SVN to host aircraft, whereas the FGM proponents insisted that the only wisdom would be GIT.
Then of course were Nazi allegations and badmouthing of everyone who argued against breaking said consensus or relaxing copyright standards, actual threats to FG developers, the use of FG infrastructure like this forum or the Wiki to bad-talk the project and all these other niceties supposedly in the interest of 'the community' - and at that point they were - reluctantly - deplatformed as a it was evident that any constructive dialog was impossible.
Just to get the facts correct - we wouldn't want to ommit the Nazi allegations, threats, sabotage attempts and all that, would we?
The FGMembers statement is here by the way:
https://www.flightgear.org/fgmembers-statement/As for what can be seen in this thread - the FG Wiki is the
FG Wiki not your private opinion page or advertisement space - you can not use it to claim 'I offer far better aircraft than FG' and expect no reaction. If anyone feels unable to work constructively for the FG project, then simply do it elsewhere, not on the FG Wiki or in the FG forum.