legoboyvdlp wrote in Mon Nov 18, 2019 4:48 pm:Don't use the FGMEMBERS one [...] I will not provide support for aircraft that are illegal [...]
CaptainCrazyAviation wrote in Tue Nov 19, 2019 2:02 am:Are they actually illegal or just 3rd party models. If they are illegal then I will delete it. I won’t do illegal things!
It is not so much about whether if the aircraft are illegal as it is about whether they contain stolen resources like sounds and photo textures. They
very strongly resented the idea of having aircraft maintainers that would go through contributions looking for possible bugs and copyright infringements before integrating them into aircraft.
As far as I could tell they literally swooped up all aircraft they could find and put them as separate repositories on their GitHub and, again, literally gave anyone who asked commit access to any of those repositories. They also argued that FlightGear should do that both before
and after they had created those repositories and a separate forum.
See also
https://www.flightgear.org/info/fgmembers-statement/