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I put it here due to it being a developer's information
Some of you may or may not know that about 4 years ago American Airlines demanded Flightsim.com (and possibly other sites) to remove any plane that had a livery that AA owned. Since then, AA has "allowed" the flighsim community to release their liveries. If you do release one, I guess you have to put a disclaimer in the readme file.
The reason I mention this is the current battle involving copyright infringments on an other site. I would hate to Pete be forced to remove planes because of something this stupid. For info and the copyright statement go to
http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds/main/aa/aa1.htm

yes or so i heard. i dont know why American is being so harsh on these things..  ::)
BTW this should be moved to FS2002

This is effectively a dead issue now. About 3 years ago - what was 'Papa Tango' (subsequently AKA World Air Simulations) tried to buy the rights for the use of airline logos on FS products. Any freeware developer would have to BUY a licence to use the logo in any release (so freeware real airline addons could have become extinct).... Flightsim.com was rolled in to work with Papa Tango - in what would have become a joint