Lisias
Space Traveller Wanna-be
But what about all the other GPL critics? Will they insist on the GPL being "illegal", like they did in the past?
Of course they will. Did SCO stopped trolling the Linux world? Just after being forced to. It's what they do, this is not a new problem neither exclusive to Orbiter.
I think not. You brought up doubts about it yourself, about the exception not being enough, because what about the other addons Orbiter links to while running with the addon.
Perhaps extending the exception to any addon (GPL compliant or not) to use your addon, as long it is linked solely to Orbiter? I don't really know, I think you should start to think on asking EFF for advice...
Your problem will be if the others GPL add ons are compatible with your exceptions, the closed source addons simply doesn't care.
You see, all the problems we are facing is due the choice for the GPL. BSD licensed code would not suffer such problems. But since we realized that GPL is the only license that would fits your need, we need to deal with all the problems that GPL incurs.
Please note that neither Orbiter neither any other closed source addon is causing the problems.
It's not this community that is biased into closed source, but GPL that is biased into Open Source, and imposes a lot of restrictions on that.
(I'm just the messenger!)
If they complain, will admins/mods take my addon down?
if some Hollywoodian with his filled with money makes a movie about an greek classic era hero called Lisias, and then issues a Cease and Desist letter claiming that all my posts are in copyright violation of his movie because of my name, you can bet your mouse the guys will comply even if *I* am the 2000 years old hero whose history is being told in the movie.
It would be financial suicide not to do so.
The same will happen if Bill Gates wake up one day and decides that he wants to use the name of some of your addon in his products.
So, please don't over think the issue. Let's deal with we already have on our hands.
I just can't be sure anymore. As I said before, I realize that the community is biased towards closed source.
I think that the community reflects the world we live in. I can't talk in behalf of anyone else here, but I didn't saw closed source bias in this discussion.
I saw concernings in preventing licenses to be involuntarily violated.