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I want to add something: I understand the need for easy packages. I would be willing to contribute my work to packages if I have a certain amount of control over the final product. I want to know that bugs will be minimised and that the overall quality of the final product is OK. And of course that everything is legal. I think most other developers would say the same.That's why I contribute to Ultimate GA. We publish allready complete packages with hundreds of repaints that are fairly easy to install: you just copy two files and one folder to the right place. What else do you want? You could easily install all our packages and all packages of World of AI in one hour.

>As someone who has 7 repaints in this "package" I'd like to>respond to those who pile on freeware developers for>complaining about things like this.>>If I were to purchase the PMDG 747 and give away free copies>to anyone who wanted to download them I think we'd all agree>that would be stealing correct? Sure it's stealing, PMDG>created the software and owns the rights to do with it as they>please, including selling it.>>Now because I choose to let people use my work free of charge>does that somehow diminish my rights to have a say in how it>is distributed? Of course not, I am still the owner of my>work. If you spent many hours putting something together like>a repaint (or 7) I'm sure you'd be a litte upset.>>Just because we choose not to charge for our work does NOT>mean that we forfeit our rights to control how it gets>distributed. That is the bottom line.>>KellyKelly, I fully agree to this. I think you found the real problem here (also previous authors): Some confuse Public Domain with Freeware. I have the same rights in my work that every producer of payware has. Regarding copyrights, there's no difference between the two.Some good reading material:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain...ee_to_republishhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware

It's a shame the links to files containing pirated copyrighted material are not deleted by the mods. -- from this...http://www.avsim.com/pages/0901/carenado_s...ado_092701.html(Quote: While we will fight documented and verifiable cases of Copyright violations, we have worked too hard to get where we are today to allow anyone, staff or otherwise, to jeopardize our reputation and that of those who give their time freely to keep our readers informed. Unsubstantiated allegations are just as heinous as copyright violations and we will tolerate neither.)...to these threads here...