Licensing issues

[alex25]

Sorry, I missed that.
The about.txt file of the Estoril track says:

Estoril '88
Original track for rFactor by carrera.4
Converted with permission.

I'm not really confident with the "Converted with permission" message.
If converting the track requires a permission, does using/sharing/studying/modifying the converted track requires something to do ?

"Converted with permission" means that i asked the original author for permission to convert the track to vdrift before including it in the data package.

if you really want to do something useful contact the upstream author (in this case, estoril that is, carrera.4) on racesimcentral forum http://forum.rscnet.org (look him up in the members list) and ask him nicely if he is willing (and/or able) to release the track under some free licence.

at the same time you also have the freedom to create a track from scratch and release it under a free licence with vdrift could then package. but that's a lot harder than just talking about software freedom....

--alex--