Let me go a bit further on this subject.
flip3d said:
Please correct me if I am mistaken. An EA is provided a "generic" physics model as supplied in the software. This is subject to revision by the model designer. This EA when posted is considered "original content" and as such falls under the guidelines of post "1".
You're not mistaken on any of those points. The important thing here is "EA," which as Phrank pointed out is the "entire package" - 3D mesh, physics and color scheme. As I understand the point of this thread, THAT is what is protected - the
entire package. Posting up an EA includes all of these things and by default the poster is claiming credit for all of them, since it is posted under his name.
If it is a collaboration among members, say one does the 3d work, one the physics and one the CS, hopefully the one posting will give credit to the other 2. So all is well.
What is NOT permitted, is to take someone else's EA (say your buddy who is not a member here made a model from scratch and shared the RFX with you, or you got a model off someone's personal website) and post it here without the creator's express permission.
It appears the consensus is that an AV does not have anything that would be considered "original content"?
Wrong, the AV
does have "original content," to the extent that you have changed it. But what are you changing? You are changing someone else's "original content." If you can alter the physics of the original creator, why should someone else be forbidden to alter
your changes to his work
My thought is that an AV does have "original content" and should be subject to the same considerations as an EA as stated in post "1".
Yes it does. But there are only two ways to keep people from editing that "original content":
First, to remove the editor entirely. Which means that every model would have "generic physics" only. Which, frankly, would totally suck. Not to mention, totally ruin RF's credibility as an RC sim.
Second, to "lock down" the physics. That's just as bad. Think about it, you download that cool new plane and you're stuck with whatever physics the creator came up with. No matter how good, no matter how bad.
Either way, you wouldn't be able to make the AV's that you're wanting to prevent the rest of us from looking at, or changing. Because they would be on "lockdown."
So what are you hoping to accomplish with this? Again, I'm baffled
DH