[REL] Ail mods: Smoke, Clouds, Moon, DeckWave

[Ailantd]

Hello everyone.

In first place I apologize to all those who have feel aggrieved by the use of protected material in earlier versions of Ailclouds.

As someone stated before while I was banned I had released a new enhanced Ailcloud version, that also removed all copyrighted material in it. I encourage all you to update to that version. It can be downloaded from http://shmods.ailantd.com/index.php?section=AilClouds

About what happen let me clarify some points about the reasons for using that copy material:

1. In my country is not a crime to use copyrighted material for personal use if there is no profit.

2. I think the world of mods is a lot more closer to personal use than comercial use.

3. Rex is composed of hundreds of high resolution textures, from sky and sea plus a engine to manage all them compatible with FSX. I used 4 textures taken from the configuration html documents (less than 30% of Ailcloud 2.0), which were not even the high resolution textures used in Rex engine. Maby as stated in Ailcloud 2.0 txt file someone could think that I was using too much form rex or even whole rex, my mistake.

4. I advised the use of Rex in the txt as I don' t want credit that is not mine.

5. I can´t see how the use of these 4 textures can in anyway undermine Rex sales as using Ailclouds in FSX has no sense at all. Never I would distributed these material if it really could harm Rex in anyway. Rex is a fantastic environmet addon for FSX and deserve all my respect.

6. I alwais stated in any case I had planed to remov that textures as soon as I could as I prefeer not use others material when possible, copyrighted or not.

7. All people here are using copyright material one way or another everyday, from sounds mods, poster mods, radio mods... even all SH5 files are uby copyrighted material. All we are walking on the edge of the legality of some countries here.

8. Anyway I understand that even that 4 low resolution textures from REX are previosly hard worked by someone and if the owner ask not to use them, I have no problem with that. I removed them as soon as they ask for it (as I had planed anyway) and even can understant the temporal ban in the forum.

In end place I apologize again to all those who have feel aggrieved by the use of protected material in earlier versions of Ailclouds.

I would prefer that this thread do not continue to disscuss about this matter. Everyone have a different opinion about it and even every country has a different law about it. To discuss this has no point at all as previoulsy stated by Webster.