Hi,
I'd like to have clarification on the licensing status of FGCamera. The only thing I've seen so far from the author is:
As far as I understand it, this means that (in most countries) only Marius_A has the right to use and distribute it (useless distribution since no one can legally use it!). If the goal is to give users maximum freedom, then I would suggest the
CC0 1.0 Universal license from Creative Commons, which is supposed to be as close to public domain as one can get(1), but applicable to many more countries in the world.
There are other good and free licenses: 2-clause and 3-clause
BSD licenses,
Apache License version 2.0, the GPL licenses of course (with the “version 2 or, at your option, any later version” clause, otherwise the risk of having something undistributable just because it “links to” a GPL 2-only part is high),
licenses the FSF considers as GPL-compatible...
Please express your intent, or point me in the right direction in case I have missed a proper license attribution. I have changes to publish on top of Slawek's work to make FGCamera run out-of-the-box with just
--addon=/path/where/FGCamera/is/installed (i.e., without
any installation work apart from downloading the software), and this seems to correspond to a very frequent user request on this forum. But with the current unclear licensing status (unless I missed something), I just can't publish these changes.
Many thanks for your work and, hopefully, for clarifying this licensing status.
(1) The problems I know of with just “public domain” being that 1) it is a U.S.A. concept, and as such doesn't apply everywhere, and 2) it is not a license, to the point that some people claim that simply declaring “my work is released in the public domain” doesn't necessarily make it so.