Regarding the Cancelled 3rd Party L-39 Project

Regarding the announced cancellation of by Virtual Patriots of their L-39 project, there needs to be a few items clarified after the rather incomplete explanation provided by the Virtual Patriots team that painted an inaccurate picture:

1. Eagle Dynamics has had an L-39 in development for several years. However, we put it on the back-burner after we awarded the Virtual Patriots team a license to create their own. A very lengthy amount of time was awarded to them and we feel that it is now no longer sound to hold off on our internal L-39 any longer.
    
   
2. All third parties enter a license agreement with the full knowledge that they are not granted exclusive rights to develop the aircraft for DCS.
    
   
3. Over two weeks ago, the head of the Virtual Patriots team was informed of this decision and was supportive of it.
    
   
4. The Virtual Patriots L-39 license agreement was not cancelled. They are free to sell their project well before the Eagle Dynamics version. However, given the massive amount of work we still believe needs completed, we see that this would be difficult for them.
    
   
5. This was one of the first 3rd party license agreements we granted. Our requirements for licenses has changed drastically. This same project (even in its current state after two years), would not have passed current 3rd party project requirements to get a license now.
   

This is all that I and Eagle Dynamics have to say on the matter.