Re: How the project works
Postby bugman » Tue Sep 06, 2016 10:15 pm
A normal fork is defined as contributing back to the project (the maintainers of the fork create merge requests, or equivalent, asking for certain changes to go back upstream). However FGMEMBERS is a hostile fork. To understand this, see https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic. ... 85#p285662, and the definition at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5490456 and http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/HostileFork.
It is also not just an attempt to out do and provide "better" FGAddon aircraft than the original upstream source (by fixing small problems, announcing it, but not contributing it back with the excuse that the fix is there to be backported by those interested), but also all of the venerable 3rd party hangars, and individual aircraft. In quite a number of cases, this is against the wishes of the aircraft authors, who nowadays try to hide their aircraft prior to release or use strange licencing to avoid being pre-announced and distributed by the FGMEMBERS group. This sometimes results in lost advertising revenue, as the FlightGear user using FGMEMBERS will no longer need to visit the upstream website.
Regards,
Edward
https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=15267&p=293797#p293797
"A normal fork is defined as contributing back to the project". Never heard of that. LibreOffice is not obliged to contribute back to OpenOffice.
"aircraft authors, who nowadays try to hide their aircraft prior to release or use strange licencing to avoid being pre-announced and distributed by the FGMEMBERS group" Hmm, wonder how strange that licencing is. Anyway, if it is their hobby to do strange licenses, so be it. Actually the only one doing it is Thorsten AFAIK. So quite a bit stretching of reality is happening here.
"This sometimes results in lost advertising revenue, as the FlightGear user using FGMEMBERS will no longer need to visit the upstream website." Alright, if a few cents is your problem, we do not have a problem. We'll get to a 100% solution.
But in reality you do not want to talk, only reek havoc. You just made a post consisting of a 100% lies.
Vincent