[opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

Gareth Nelson gareth at garethnelson.com
Thu Apr 15 08:57:33 PDT 2010


The problem with that is a contract requires assent on both sides

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Discrete Dreamscape
<discrete.dreamscape at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's possible to willingly agree to liability and wave whatever protections
> you wish that are normally under the GPL, which seems to be what the TPV
> asks you to do. The issue most people seem to have is that it's not explicit
> in this regard and it also doesn't make it clear that it is a contract
> between you and LL.
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Tigro Spottystripes
> <tigrospottystripes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
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>> from what i understand, according to GPL, developers and distributers of
>> GPL'd stuff are _*NOT*_ liable for any GPL code they create, modify or
>> distribute
>>
>> On 15/4/2010 12:28, Robert Martin wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Gareth Nelson
>> > <gareth at garethnelson.com> wrote:
>> >> A quick note on that - this is not the whole meeting, some of the
>> >> start was missing
>> >>
>> > suggestion for the next meeting MAKE IT TEXT CHAT ONLY.
>> > how much of the meeting was lost to overhead related to voice links
>> > getting garbled or relaying info being given in voice or a client
>> > crashing or ...
>> >
>> > anyway i think that the core problem of the current TPVp is not
>> > limiting the liability of a developer to 1 code he changed 2 fixing
>> > bugs in said code so
>> >
>> > LL is only liable for Linden Core Code*
>> > a TPV is only liable for code changed from LLC**
>> > a user is liable for actions on the grid (and whatever changes done to
>> > either LLC or TP code)
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