@LoCall, my friend, sorry for words, but what the f*ck are you talking about? In the repo that not exist now, there wasn't license file and authors were removed and replaced by only Franck, what is breaking GNU GPL laws just like removing the license. Intentions - intentions are other thing, but the laws are laws. Oh, ofc he didn't deleted, just replaced...
What? so why i said about deleted authors? hmm...
wait a second... maybe i didn't said he deleted file, but authors? 'AUTHORS' file:
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Boeing 777 Series 200 , ER , LR , F , USAF ( Tanker ° , X9
Authors
Franck VMD - 3d Models , Xml , Nasal , Effects , Liveries
(C) Franck VMD 'cause i dont know how can i license it other than just copyright
anyway,
'Its just removing license...'
from the GNU GPL v2:
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[...]1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.[...]
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Look, im not hating this project, i have some things that make me angry with it e.g. loading time and so on and so on.
Intentions are other thing than changing topic but anyway:
Other files or addons - NOT THIS TOPIC AND NOT CAUSE TO SAY THAT REMOVING LICENSE IS GOOD
'matter of conversation between developers' - nice, im developer too.
What you want from making nice looking things in cost of naming all works to someone else than original authors? It will make flightgear look good, ofc, but in a lot of time someone will even create payware plane based on GNU GPL one if it will go that way, and its going quantity over quality. Look at first messages of that situation. Did I said it should be removed or just quietly said there is missing license file and other things, or even look at first page of that topic, i even wanted to help franck with creating it! I really want to help with other projects, even created one based on another one, just like franck with 777 but with 737-400. Did i removed authors? no, just putted me as developer, and added other developers in 'original developers of (link to the plane):' Would you feel good if someone will steal your work wich is a lot of hours in such complex aircraft and even remove your nick/name from it? its NOT nice. Again on the 777s topic:
Sadly on softwareheiritage i was not able to find the repo... if i will send what i have on my PC ya will say its false, so we can't prove it... almost. My friends and I were interested in that so we send a lot of screenshots of this thing to each other, even to find where license and authors got removed, authors were removed in December last year, while that project is on sf for longer than that. One of other things were interesting commits, i dont know if it is still releated to this, but to add one livery, the entire aircraft got removed... my friend's theory was that is hiding the authors problems, but i thing that can be just a mistake or something. another things... scam things - canvas view camera... you remember that? it looked like big change for entire flightge... wait, ah.. it was just png texture and 3D panel... sad... it was in liveries-kc folder. maybe it was using canvas but it definitly was not the CVCanvas. As far as i know, there also was 'camera' on the lower MFD like in real but it was just image. and again... I DONT HATE ANY PROJECT! Just saying that it need to be fixed. I really love that someone is working on such complex, detailed, and amazing 777 but licensing problem have to be fixed.
and if someone dont want to read it:
tl;dr:
777 have license problems and its true
Authors got removed
I'm also developer
I like Franck 777'
I dont hate any project,
just giving suggestion to fix it