Excuse me for being stupid, but why keeps a person from selling a set of
plans they bought and built with?

Fred

"Corrie" wrote in message
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So why are the plans no longer avilable?

More than likely they were withdrawn out of a fear over liability or the
owners just couldn't justify the time and expense of supporting them.

Whatever the reason, Bob is right. Intellectual property law serves
the public good. That's the reason the Constitution gives Federal
government control of copyright and patents - to encourage the
"useful arts and sciences." If Burt wants to put the EZ plans in the
public domain, he's free to do so. No one else.

For all the jawing about "information should be free" - and there is
in fact a TON of taxpayer-funded (nothing's free) aeronautical
information available for the downloading from NASA and the dot-gov
sites, including AC 43 and the AIM/FAR - there doesn't seem to be a
single "open source" airplane design. The closest are arguably the
Pietenpol Air Camper, Evans VP-1, and Bowers FlyBaby, but the plans
aren't *free.* Very reasonably priced, but *not* free.