They could, for example, decide to not play ball and instead sue Israel in a UK court of law (where one of the original authors resides, or at least used to). They may have plenty of time, patience, money, and determination. Or someone who does not like the FGMEMBERS organisation may decide to fund one of the original authors to take down the organisation. Their lawyer could possibly indite and extradite anyone considered to be part of the FGMEMBERS organisation. You are making the assumption that this won't happen, and that the illegal behaviour will be resolved amicably. Although likely, that may not necessarily happen.
For the core of the FlightGear project, such assumptions are never made. Strong legal policies, basic and low hurdles to obtaining commit access, and constant content checking are in place to ensure that illegal activities are avoided from the start. There is zero reliance on the mercy of the original content creator for legal protection. So you'll never see anything such as:
- "FG Aircraft | T-50 by Ummon Karpe and Peter Jedvaj [Undeclared License. Temporary Restriction: Creative Commons "BY-NC-SA" ]"
- "FG Aircraft | MB326 by Charles Ingels [License Undeclared. Temporary restrictions: Creative Commons "BY-NC-SA" ]"
Israel wishes that the FlightGear core drops their repositories and instead use his FGMEMBERS infrastructure. But the core group will never accept liability for such questionable legal nightmares.
Regards,
Edward