Bushi
Charter Member
So, over the years I have both purchased, and downloaded a plethora of payware and freeware aircraft from many VERY talented designers.
I can't leave well enough alone, so I change what I download / purchase by mostly doing repaints. I do not have a program that allows me to produce an airplane 'model', and rely on the talents of others to provide THAT important bit.. and OMG.. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to all the guys who do this.
I also like to tweak instrument panels, interiors etc. and I DID have Panelmaker at one time.. but it's gone. ( the great laptop crash of.. oh I can't remember when now)
Anyway, apart from redoing the bitmaps for specific gauges to change them, I also 'mix and match' gauges from airplane to airplane to achieve a result I desire. Now, all of this is for my own use... and the only time I have EVER included a change I've made to someone else's work is after getting their permission to do so (as in my custom "Sikorsky AV-57 directional gyro I included in my upload of the airplane in PEA livery)
Nav / GPS switches little things like that added to panels to make life easier... and if it's a default FS9 gauge, I don't see any reason NOT to share in another airplane uploaded for free.. as well EVERYONE would HAVE the gauge!
But for my 'own' use, I've added gauges from payware aircraft to others in my hangar. Some with redone bitmaps to match surroundings,.. and a few other minor edits to their appearance.
One I have found useful in my WW2 US warbirds, is the VERY nice autopilot from the Wings of Power B-17. Since this is THIER work.. and they SELL it, I would never ever think of including it in any free upload..
Not only is it probably a violation of copyright law.. it's also unethical! so.. yeah...
But here is a question that popped up the other night in a discussion group conversation.
Would it be both legal, and ethical, to post a panel cfg. file that included a line referencing the payware gauge NOT THE GAUGE ITSELF... so that anyone that had purchased the airplane from the original developer, and therefore ALREADY HAD THE GAUGE, could use it in the aforementioned 'different' aircraft.
Seeing as ANYONE who already owned the gauge could do this.. all posting the new panel cfg. is doing is eliminating the sometimes tedious work of positioning, sizing etc.
So... thoughts? Would providing JUST the edited panel cfg. be considered appropriate, or not?
I have included a screenshot of said autopilot (and I've modified it to fit in the space available on the panel) from the WoP payware package.. that I received for Christmas YEARS ago..as it is installed in the 'hole' on Miltons 'Escort 47J and XP-72.. (which in my sim are referred to as P-47Q and P-72D respectively)
Cheers,
Dave
I can't leave well enough alone, so I change what I download / purchase by mostly doing repaints. I do not have a program that allows me to produce an airplane 'model', and rely on the talents of others to provide THAT important bit.. and OMG.. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to all the guys who do this.
I also like to tweak instrument panels, interiors etc. and I DID have Panelmaker at one time.. but it's gone. ( the great laptop crash of.. oh I can't remember when now)
Anyway, apart from redoing the bitmaps for specific gauges to change them, I also 'mix and match' gauges from airplane to airplane to achieve a result I desire. Now, all of this is for my own use... and the only time I have EVER included a change I've made to someone else's work is after getting their permission to do so (as in my custom "Sikorsky AV-57 directional gyro I included in my upload of the airplane in PEA livery)
Nav / GPS switches little things like that added to panels to make life easier... and if it's a default FS9 gauge, I don't see any reason NOT to share in another airplane uploaded for free.. as well EVERYONE would HAVE the gauge!
But for my 'own' use, I've added gauges from payware aircraft to others in my hangar. Some with redone bitmaps to match surroundings,.. and a few other minor edits to their appearance.
One I have found useful in my WW2 US warbirds, is the VERY nice autopilot from the Wings of Power B-17. Since this is THIER work.. and they SELL it, I would never ever think of including it in any free upload..
Not only is it probably a violation of copyright law.. it's also unethical! so.. yeah...
But here is a question that popped up the other night in a discussion group conversation.
Would it be both legal, and ethical, to post a panel cfg. file that included a line referencing the payware gauge NOT THE GAUGE ITSELF... so that anyone that had purchased the airplane from the original developer, and therefore ALREADY HAD THE GAUGE, could use it in the aforementioned 'different' aircraft.
Seeing as ANYONE who already owned the gauge could do this.. all posting the new panel cfg. is doing is eliminating the sometimes tedious work of positioning, sizing etc.
So... thoughts? Would providing JUST the edited panel cfg. be considered appropriate, or not?
I have included a screenshot of said autopilot (and I've modified it to fit in the space available on the panel) from the WoP payware package.. that I received for Christmas YEARS ago..as it is installed in the 'hole' on Miltons 'Escort 47J and XP-72.. (which in my sim are referred to as P-47Q and P-72D respectively)
Cheers,
Dave
Bushi,
I have the WoP bombers so don't need the gauges.